Peace Pilgrim Quotes

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

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

I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.

I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.

No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.