“The peace of the chitta (or mind stuff) can be brought about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose, and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, or towards all forms of good or evil.”

“The peace of the chitta is also brought about by the regulation of the prana or life breath.”

“The peace of the chitta is also brought about by the regulation of the prana or life breath.”

“The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.”

“The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.”

“Instructors can impart only a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.”

“The purpose of meditation is not to calm the mind. It's all about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Familiarise yourself with good and evil, the shortest path to eternal wisdom.”

“[P]leasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good: pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning. And this is alike true of every sort of pain, and of every sort of pleasure.”

“Death is regarded as an evil and our minds are only meditating upon life itself, and never upon the destroyer of pleasure, which is death.”

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”