Meditation Quotes · Page 68

“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Sayings and Doings of Ta-zan') is one of the best Zen books. [FN#142]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

— Frederick Lenz

“To see one at fault when he is without fault is raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others).”

— Dada Bhagwan

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

— Dalai Lama

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

— Nhat Hanh

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

— Rajneesh

“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born…

— Rajneesh

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment”

— Sharon Salzberg

Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows…

— Frederick Lenz

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while…

— Mooji

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the…

— Richard Rohr

Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This…

— Christiane Northrup

Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was…

— Philippa Perry

“What’s that mean?” Eddie asked. “I hate it when you start up with your Zen Buddhist shit, Roland.” “It means I don’t…

— Stephen King

“As for the relation between analytical and resting meditation on the one side and calm abiding and superior insight on the other,…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Vitality manifests itself on the level of spirit as jing-shen ('essence-spirit'), which may be cultivated by the practice of meditation. In Taoist…

— Daniel Reid

“By focusing at a point six to nine inches away from the region between your eyebrows for twelve to forty-eight minutes, with…

— Sadhguru

“Meditation has become such a common element of business training that more than a thousand Googlers attended a training program called, Search…

— Brian Tracy

I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able…

— Flying Lotus

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Rajneesh

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

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

— Anthony Powell

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

— Thomas Hood

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

— John Edward

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

— Sally Fitzgibbons

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

— Nirmala Srivastava

“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

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

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

— Margaret Atwood