Meditation Quotes · Page 85

“Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.”

— Carlo Carretto

“The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.”

— Bryant McGill

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

— David A. Cooper

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our…

— Sharon Salzberg

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

— Frederick Lenz

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“The hardest part of any yoga practice is rolling out your mat.”

— Darren Main

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“To be conscious of being unconscious and being a victim of self-delusionning , is really something that demands admiration and contemplation !”

— The Night Gazer Nomad

I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one…

— Vicky Krieps

“You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be…

— Éliphas Lévi

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting…

— Frederick Lenz

Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite…

— Evan Guerra

“If we worship another, then we remain in duality. We have not fully entered the path within. Through awareness, we learn to…

— Robert Cosmar

“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread…

— Viktor E. Frankl

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.…

— Adyashanti

In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is…

— Rajneesh

Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.…

— Quentin S. Crisp

[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went…

— Sandra Cisneros

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

— Nirmala Srivastava

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness is like a multifaceted diamond that looks different depending on which facet you reflect.”

— Stephen McKenzie

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

— Matthieu Ricard

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

— Milarepa

“it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering”

— Shri Radhe Maa

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

— David Fontana

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

— Richard Hittleman

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

— Swami Vivekananda

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

— Ilchi Lee

“In the stillness, we find clarity. In the simplicity, we find depth. And in the practice, we begin to find ourselves.”

— Arjan Singh

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

— Sogyal Rinpoche