Meditation Quotes · Page 45

“Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

— Alex Ebert

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

— K. Pattabhi Jois

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

— Frederick Lenz

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any…

— Donna Karan

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

— Donna Reed

“That which blocks circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and that which pushes away circumstances is also artadhyan. To…

— Dada Bhagwan

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious,…

— Frederick Lenz

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was…

— Brian Wilson

“Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love,…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

— Frederick Lenz

“Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each…

— Pema Chödrön

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

— Pope John Paul II

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it…

— Ramana Maharshi

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves…

— Simone de Beauvoir

At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous…

— Thomas Merton

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a…

— Adyashanti

Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my…

— Kimbra

There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for…

— Tim McCarthy

“We know Existence, because we are existence. We know Truth, because we are truth. We know Life, because we are life itself.…

— Robert Cosmar

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and…

— Rudolf Steiner

Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.

— Lisa Jones

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

— George Muller

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

— C. S. Lewis

“Mindfulness makes a year feel like a decade, whereas mindlessness does the opposite.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

— Baruch Spinoza

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

— Rajneesh

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

— Rajneesh

“From an inimitable timepiece to an immeasurable masterpiece, there is meditation perfected”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

— Gautama Buddha

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

— James Harrington

Like many things, the hardest part about meditation is the decision to put aside the time for it.

— Ingrid Seward

“Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.”

— Andy Stanley

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

— Catherine Doherty

“Memorisation comes from the head but meditation is from the heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

— Aberjhani