Meditation Quotes · Page 50

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

— Shirley MacLaine

Spirituality means to put your evolutionary process on fast-forward.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Sayings and Doings of Ta-zan') is one of the best Zen books. [FN#142]”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

— Deepak Chopra

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation,

— David Suchet

“Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.”

— Banani Ray

I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the…

— Emma Corrin

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why…

— Swami Vivekananda

I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is…

— Frederick Lenz

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation,…

— Frederick Lenz

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just…

— Moby

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Zen has nothing to do with any god. No sincere man, no intelligent man has anything to do with any fiction. He…

— OSHO

I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For…

— Wayne Dyer

Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in…

— Gautama Buddha

And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort…

— William Gurnall

The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as…

— Pankaj Mishra

One of the things that has changed my life—and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality—is meditating.…

— Sheryl Crow

I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I…

— Frederick Lenz

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind.…

— Harold Klemp

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

— Rajneesh

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

— Nhat Hanh

“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

— Dalai Lama

“To see one at fault when he is without fault is raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

— Frederick Lenz

Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.

— Sally Fitzgibbons

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

— John Edward

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

— Thomas Hood

“Being mindful means being aware of everything and certain of nothing”.”

— Wendy T. Behary

“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.”

— Banani Ray

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

— Rajneesh

“Mindfulness leads to selflessness, which unfolds as mindlessness is left behind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.”

— Anthony Powell

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

— Arianna Huffington