Joko Beck Quotes

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

A quiet mind cureth all.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

I have one room dedicated to just meditation.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

I try to meditate.