Meditation Quotes

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

Meditation has changed my life

All souls can find the truth within.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.

I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Meditation is the action of silence.