Paulo Coelho Quotes

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

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.

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

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.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

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

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?