Meditation Quotes
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.
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.
Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.
What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day.
Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)
Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.
Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
But if we see ourselves as connected to God, or as reconnecting to our Source through meditation, then we can attract anything we want into our lives.
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.
Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.
When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life’s journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.