S N Goenka Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Jim Moran

#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. 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

#8. 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

#9. For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

Fritz Lang

#10. 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

#11. When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

S. N. Goenka

#16. 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

#17. It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

Robert M. Parker Jr.

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

S. N. Goenka

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

S. N. Goenka

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

S. N. Goenka

#21. Any earner who earns more than he can spend is automatically an investor.

G.M. Loeb

#22. If you don't have a dream, then you have nothing to work for, nothing to get up in the morning for, no reason.. and no purpose to be. But friends we do have a dream and dreams do come true not because we keep believing but we keep working hard

Kai Greene

#23. I'm a cold-hearted bastard. I'm insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don't do forever, I rarely even do "I'll call you tomorrow". And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.

Ally Blake

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

S. N. Goenka

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

S. N. Goenka

#26. Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

S. N. Goenka

#28. 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

#29. I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Jerry Herman

#30. And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Deborah Smith