Meditation Quotes

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

Mind is there, in front of you. Don't log in.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Nothing is born, nothing dies.