Goenka Quotes

#1. Seven pillars make or kill a brand,' says Goenka. 'Packaging, pricing, product, promotion, distribution, advertising, and margins to retailers. We ensure there is equal focus on all these aspects.

Nikhil Inamdar

#2. Let's Talk is a practical guide that will greatly help young
adults at the workplace to navigate through unforeseen and
vulnerable social situations. Harsh Goenka

Mukta Mahajani

#3. Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

S. N. Goenka

#4. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

S. N. Goenka

#5. Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

S. N. Goenka

#6. Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

S. N. Goenka

#7. Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

Laura Wasser

#9. If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

S. N. Goenka

#10. If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

S. N. Goenka

#11. For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

S. N. Goenka

#12. 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 present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

S. N. Goenka

#13. Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

S. N. Goenka

#14. 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 right nostril. It makes no difference.

S. N. Goenka

#15. One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

S. N. Goenka

#16. The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

S. N. Goenka

#17. Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

S. N. Goenka

#18. The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

S. N. Goenka

#19. If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

Mark Hoppus

#20. Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

S. N. Goenka

#21. A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

Jackie Kennedy

#22. Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

S. N. Goenka

#23. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever

Veronika Gasparyan

#24. Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.

S. N. Goenka

#25. They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

William Penn

#26. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Michael Lewis

#27. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

S. N. Goenka