Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

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

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

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.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

[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.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.

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

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.

My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.