Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

Real bliss is to have peace of mind.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.