Meditation Quotes · Page 49

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

— Deepak Chopra

“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.”

— T. Scott McLeod

“Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.”

— B. Alan Wallace

I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

— Thich Nhat Hang

It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Ganapati, the one with the human body and the head of a Gana, became a tremendous possibility.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

— Pico Iyer

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's…

— Darold Treffert

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

— Frederick Lenz

“Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the…

— Osho

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is…

— Bruce Lee

“Meditation is a journey from negative-mindset to positive-mindset. It is a means to stay positive and radiate positive energy.”

— Amit Ray

A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working.…

— Sakyong Mipham

“Greatest dharma (one’s greatest religion) is to stop artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have…

— Enza Vita

“Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in…

— Michael Mayne

“9. Zen and Supernatural Power. Yoga[FN#250] claims that various supernatural powers can be acquired by Meditation, but Zen does not make any…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Imagination is a great force. On the path of meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the path of love, imagination is a…

— Osho

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,…

— Victor Hugo

“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life,…

— Josef Pieper

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,…

— Paul Brunton

“This intuitive state is also called prayer or meditation. We see it in the Bible in all the beautiful passages related to…

— Jamie Winship

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

— Margaret Atwood

“A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.”

— Sharon Salzberg

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

— Ramana Maharshi

The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I have to do a daily programme of meditation as part of my recovery, reflecting every morning and evening.

— Tony Adams

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.”

— Anthony Powell

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

— Arianna Huffington

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

— Sam Hamill

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

— Rajneesh

“Mindfulness leads to selflessness, which unfolds as mindlessness is left behind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.”

— Banani Ray

“Being mindful means being aware of everything and certain of nothing”.”

— Wendy T. Behary

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.

— Sally Fitzgibbons

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

— John Edward