Eknath Easwaran Quotes

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Meditation changes your character.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

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.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

I always used to be like, 'I don't need to meditate.' And it's not true.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.