Meditation Quotes
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.
Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.
The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.
Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.
Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.
When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!
When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.
Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.
The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.
Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.
Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.
A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.
Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.
Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.
The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.
Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.
Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.