Meditation Quotes
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.
What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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.
If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.
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 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.
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.
Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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.
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!
Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.
It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.
We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.
Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.