Russell Simmons Quotes

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.

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

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

The practice of being on a spiritual path isn't about being the best meditator or the kindest possible person or the most enlightened. The practice is about surrendering to love as often as possible.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.