Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

My life coach is very spiritual, and I do a lot of meditation and mantras.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

I'm a big advocate of meditation.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

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.

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