Thomas a Kempis Quotes

There's more to life than physical and material.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

Our goal is self-transcendence

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

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

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

With renunciation life begins.

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.