Meditation Quotes · Page 82

Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.

— Louise Hay

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

— Nick Flynn

Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it -…

— Mooji

“Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

— Eckhart Tolle

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

— Sharon Salzberg

“The closer one gets to the heart of truth, often times, the resistance or ego, gets really epic nasty!”

— johnjwillard

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

— D.T. Suzuki

Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It…

— Tim McCarthy

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You…

— Frederick Lenz

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just…

— Anne Lamott

“You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect. - Sri Amit…

— Amit Ray

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

— Frederick Lenz

“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind. A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an…

— Ikkyu

After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and…

— Frederick Lenz

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you…

— Frederick Lenz

Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy.…

— Rod Stryker

Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is…

— Nhat Hanh

“Do whatever you do joyfully, because discipline - the true meaning of the word - is characterized by doing something with joy.…

— Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the…

— Sri Chinmoy

When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully…

— Sri Chinmoy

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given…

— Richard Nelson

“The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he…

— Mother Teresa

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

— Jen Kirkman

“Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.”

— Bryant McGill

In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

— Frederick Lenz

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.

— Alaska

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

— Richard Gere

“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.”

— Tiziana Stupia

“Meditation for a while can bring a lot peace in a while. :)) It can turn peace into bless.”

— Deepndense

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Those who are pure of heart find new thoughts whenever they meditate.

— Nachman of Breslov

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

— Mike Love

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

— Mike White

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

— Alice Coltrane

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

— Eva Mendes

“The way a man does one thing is the way he does everything." Zen saying”

— Thomas D. Craig

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

— Gautama Buddha