Seneca the Younger Quotes

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

[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.

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.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are deep in awareness, you don't feel awareness, you feel bliss. When you begin to feel bliss, that means now you have begun to be aware. Awareness creates the situation in which bliss is felt.

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.