During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth at the moment.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be committed to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness to happen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experience is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. Furthermore, it is like a drop dropping into the Ocean.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Every loving word and action create a far-reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.

— Swami Dhyan Giten

God is the soul of the universe.

— Swami Dhyan Giten