Meditation Quotes

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

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

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

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

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.