Meditation Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

— Henepola Gunaratana

“we try mentally to grab onto it or push it away. That sets the worry response in motion.”

— Henepola Gunaratana

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

— Henepola Gunaratana

The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding…

— Henepola Gunaratana

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration…

— Henepola Gunaratana

But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise,…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“You can learn to perceive your life as an ever-flowing movement. You can learn to see the continuous flow of all conditioned”

— Henepola Gunaratana

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

— Henepola Gunaratana

“We spend all of our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears, endlessly seeking security.”

— Henepola Gunaratana

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

— Henepola Gunaratana

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step…

— Henepola Gunaratana

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on…

— Henepola Gunaratana