Meditation Quotes · Page 84

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

— Tenzin Palmo

“See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

— Peter Lindbergh

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

— Robert Sheckley

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

— Goldie Hawn

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

— Jaggi Vasudev

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

— Amit Ray

Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing…

— Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally,” writes Kabat-Zinn. “This kind of attention…

— Will Schwalbe

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.

— Rajneesh

If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.…

— Frederick Lenz

I meditate and try to walk outside daily. I prefer to now spend my time with people that I know truly care…

— Avril Lavigne

“Meditation will be one of the most powerful tools in your self-care toolbox because it is something that you can do for…

— Shahida Arabi

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority -…

— Rajneesh

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves.…

— Anonymous

Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that…

— Robert Holden

“I didn’t share his optimism. I’d already tried Western medicine, Eastern medicine, and everything in between. I tried different doctors, no doctors,…

— Guideposts

“I WANT EVERYONE to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one’s own sensitive contemplation and careful observations.…

— Sandra Joseph

“After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We…

— Dielle Ciesco

“it is always recommended that you meditate every day, and preferably in the same place and at the same time. This may…

— Alexis G. Roldan

“We truly help others working on ourselves. When it comes from the knowledge that the only power we have is over our…

— Raphael Zernoff

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality…

— Sri Chinmoy

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

— Alber Elbaz

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

— Mike Love

“Not having the slightest abhorrence towards any nimit (instrumental doer) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.”

— Darren Main

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation to the past.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

— Hakuin Ekaku

“I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things”

— Stephen Chbosky

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

— Dalai Lama

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

— Jack Kornfield

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the…

— Nhat Hanh

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.

— Nirmala Srivastava

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“As long as you meditate on the scriptures, you will uplift your spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“meditation was now increasingly being viewed as a software upgrade for the brain.”

— Dan Harris