Meditation Quotes · Page 95

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

— Rajneesh

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

— Amit Ray

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

— Orlando Bloom

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

— Tara Brach

“Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.”

— Bryant McGill

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

— Billy Connolly

“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.”

— Sri Amma Bhagwan

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

— Gautama Buddha

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and…

— Bat for Lashes

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think…

— Jeff Kober

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

— Amit Ray

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have…

— Bill Porter

Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of…

— Ramakrishna

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed.…

— Shirley MacLaine

If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one…

— Jennifer Ashton

Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in…

— Sara Gran

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is…

— Dogen

“We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation…

— Milan Yerkovich

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“People who eat too much or too little or who sleep too much or too little will not succeed in meditation. Eat…

— The Bhagavad Gita

“Don’t do anything—no repetition of mantra, no repetition of the name of God—just watch whatever the mind is doing. Don’t disturb it,…

— Osho

There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and…

— Janet Robertson

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

— Jack Kornfield

I've thought so hard about meditation I sat totally still for hours.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

— Steven Rinella

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

— Rajneesh

“A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“I think it was the lavatory to which I retired- a perfect place for quiet meditation, where no one could possibly pursue…

— Agatha Christie

I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.

— Omarion

“objective. This objective is to silence the busy mind, free it from stress, and prepare it for reflection and contemplation.”

— Anong Sasithorn

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

— H. E Davey

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

— Anonymous

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

— Dogen

“It is impossible to give your best effort without mindfulness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Meditation can open the door and welcome all of unfathomably vast goodness in the universe.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree