Jim Sarbh Quotes

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

I have one room dedicated to just meditation.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.