Meditation Quotes
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Meditation means seeing God within you, and love is seeing God in the person next to you.
Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.
I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.
Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.
Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.
My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.
Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.
The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state of mind and body.
I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!
No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.
Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.
Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.
It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.
I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.
Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.
Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.
You are unshakable, the Lord is your rock, and redeemer, when the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart are pleasing before Him. Psalm 9:14
Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation.
The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50, 000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day
Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.
Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.
The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world, it's like a line painted on the sidewalk.