Dalai Lama Quotes

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.