Meditation Quotes · Page 81

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

— Shri Radhe Maa

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

— Philippa Perry

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

— Ayya Khema

“Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.”

— Simon Boylan

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

— Frederick Lenz

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

— Simone Weil

“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being…

— Pema Chödrön

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever…

— T. Scott McLeod

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for…

— Adyashanti

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of…

— David Lynch

There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a…

— Frederick Lenz

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't…

— Frederick Lenz

When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing…

— John of the Cross

“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting…

— J. Krishnamurti

The "Bhagavad Gita" is actually a very good text for yoga - the yoga of love, the yoga of action or karma,…

— Deepak Chopra

“It was still quiet at the bar, early afternoon, before the happy-hour crowd arrived with their after-work bonhomie, and even as the…

— William Lashner

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then…

— Anonymous

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion,…

— Leonard Bernstein

“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.

— Frederick Lenz

“When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.”

— Bryant McGill

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

— Frederick Lenz

“That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.”

— Susan Sontag

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

— Rajneesh

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

— James Allen

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

— Frederick Lenz

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond…

— Frederick Lenz

“So-kei, a Korean Zenist, whose work entitled Zen-ke-ki-kwan is worthy of our note as a representation of Korean Zen. [FN#143]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

— Pema Chodron

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

— Sharon Salzberg

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

— Rumi

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies,

— D.T. Suzuki

“When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.”

— Amit Ray