“This vast literature…Upanishads and their commentaries and sub commentaries and sub sub commentaries and multiple magnificent structures of philosophies built upon it…they all reduce to OM and especially the SILENCE AT THE END OF OM.”
— Swami Sarvapriyananda
“If our mind is headed in a direction that we know is leading to suffering and is already causing suffering, we need some emergency measures. And mantra is just such an emergency measure. It qualifies as distraction and it qualifies as substitution. So we take words that are wholesome… leading to our happiness… ultimately to our enlightenment. And we use those wholesome words to substitute for words that are causing us distress.”
— Roshi Jan Chozen Bays
“The best contribution you can make to humanity…is to recognize your true nature and its inherent peace.“
— Rupert Spira
“The most important thing about the teaching of rebirth is that life continues. That there is more to our lives than the little span of time between birth and death. The teaching of rebirth tells us that our life and death are significant beyond their appearance, more important than we know.“
— Zoketusu Norman Fischer
“In silence, there is a total disappearance of the ego.“
— Jean Klein
“Just sitting, with no deliberate thought, is the important aspect of serene reflection meditation.“
— Dogen
“Every form in the creation has a corresponding sound. Sound is of the surface, silence is of the core. A space that is beyond creation, life and death, is referred to as nishabd, silence. In consciously aspiring for silence, there is a possibility of becoming silence.”
— Sadhguru
“Silence gives answers.”
— Rumi
“Just sitting, with no deliberate thought, is the important aspect of serene reflection meditation.”
— Dogen Zenji
“Still water is clear;
— Gampopa
Mind free of strain is happy.”