Skip to content

Happiness Quote by Ajahn Chah

“If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.” quote by Ajahn Chah — Download Open image

“If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Happiness Ifs Looks Meditation Mind Psychology Truth is Wisdom Within you

More by Ajahn Chah

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

Image

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Image

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.

Image

We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

Image

Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our…

Image

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Image

Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to…

Image

A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.…

Image

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Image

In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to…

Image

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

Image

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort…

Image

Explore all 105 Ajahn Chah quotes

More Happiness quotes

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

Image

Remember that your natural state is joy.

Image

Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of…

Denise Morrison

Image

“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS…

MARVIN J. ASHTON

Image

I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very…

Evgeni Plushenko

Image

Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel !

Robert Reynolds

Image

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Image

“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,…

Image

The happy have whole days,

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Image

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Image

Browse all 39,040 Happiness quotes