James Allen Quotes

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

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.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.