Meditation Quotes

Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.

Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.

Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness.

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.