Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room,… — Mike Daniels Copy Share Image
The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a…turkey…in the barn-yard but looked grave when… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
“Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the… — Susan Piver Copy Share Image
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize,… — Moby Copy Share Image
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
![“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink. It struck me that this is why we say to people, "Calm down." Because beneath the noise of the pounding, swirling surf is a place where all is quiet and clear. The chaos…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/glennon-doyle-29247_be-still_i-d-been-drowning-i-d-been-flailing-on-t_729717.jpg)
![“It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new…” quote by Alice Coltrane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/alice-coltrane-25252_beautiful_it-was-so-interesting-when-john-coltrane_1177734.jpg)
![“Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith…” quote by Elyse Fitzpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/elyse-fitzpatrick-19135_doubt_unless-we-re-very-intentional-about-medi_259795.jpg)
![“When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccb/dani-shapiro-2273_felt_when-i-started-meditating-even-doing-yog_2170881.png)
![“Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.” quote by Dorianne Laux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c20/dorianne-laux-12252_book_joseph-millar-is-much-more-disciplined-t_1704578.jpg)
