Lao Tzu Quotes

I want people to find their inner depth.

Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone. A meditator can sit joyously alone for months, for years. He does not hanker for the other, because his own inner ecstasy is so much, is so overpowering, that who bothers about the other?

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Solitude is the place of purification.

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 believe in nurturing the inner world.

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 use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

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.

What you are looking for is within you

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.