Meditation Quotes
A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.
Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.
Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.
Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.
Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.
Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.
You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.
Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.