Meditation Quotes

Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

Meditation is not what you do in the morning, that's practice. Meditation is the daily result of that practice.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

I think meditation is great, I really believe that at some point you need to just sit with a cup of tea in a café and just stare at the sky and be grateful.

For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

Meditation is not about doing something

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

Meditation is the best engineering.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.