Keiynan Lonsdale Quotes

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.

Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?

Your state of mind is everything.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy - then their religion is pseudo. Try to understand why you are unhappy.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.