Meditation Quotes

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.

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.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

Love does not expect anything in return

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

To forgive does not mean to forget.

The closer we are to God, the richer we are

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.

Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.