Meditation practice

'Meditation is not an end in itself. Meditation leads to the state of being where there's no meditation.'

'Stillness is still the way. You cannot be truly straight, you cannot be truly honest. You cannot be truly open unless you are absolutely still.'

'The purification of the body in the first instance, is to bring, deliberately bring the intelligence into it, to focus the intelligence inside the body.'

'The spiritual life is about being conscious within and without, until eventually, the need of attention disappears, because I have returned to the natural state of consciousness.'

'For ease, lack of tension is the way to God and consciousness, until eventually, you live a life of equilibrium where you neither get excited about anything and you neither get depressed or unhappy about anything.'

'So the whole world thinks it's natural to worry, it is not natural to worry at all. It's normal to worry. The world doesn't know what's natural anymore.'

'Myself is not me. That is one of the great, the great truths that I have brought into this world, myself is not me.'

'The mind tries all the time to distract, always trying to distract, and you can sometimes sense it on the perimeter, trying to distract while you hold the stillness.'

'Trance is when you give up alertness and you just go with the trance. Sleep is a form of trance…but there is a tendency to go into trance when the endeavour is to focus on the stillness and silence. So be alert.'

'Have you really freed your prisoners, or do you still hold them in dark or deep recesses in yourself? ...We hold these emotional prisoners in our chest and our stomach, and we hold them deep in the recesses of ourself where nobody can see them, but we know they're there, if we will only be honest and intelligent.'

'Pure sensation actually has no shape. It is our mind that puts a shape to the sensation and therefore creates the body.'