Meditation Quotes

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Meditation has really helped with keeping my center.

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.