Meditation Quotes

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.

Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

Meditation essentially means having a great time.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Without meditation, Id probably be dead.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself?

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.