Tom Robbins Quotes

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

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

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

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

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.