Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the… — 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
