Aldous Huxley Quotes

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

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.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.