When I observe myself and find that I am generating anger, ill will, or animosity, I realize that I am the first victim of the hatred or animosity I am generating within myself. Only afterwards do I start harming others.… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
When I observe myself and find that I am generating anger, ill will, or animosity, I realize that I am the first victim of… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
