Meditation Quotes

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.