Don DeLillo Quotes

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

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.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.