Meditation Quotes · Page 71

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

— Moby

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

— Deepak Chopra

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved…

— Melanie Benjamin

“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot…

— Mike Love

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

— Pema Chodron

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your…

— Frederick Lenz

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate…

— Jack Kornfield

The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.”

— Gary Hopkins

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the…

— Sri Chinmoy

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical,…

— Frederick Lenz

“It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and…

— Joel T. McGrath

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine…

— John Woolman

Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined…

— Ron Kurtz

So as you are, in whatever conditions you are, in whatever situations you are, whatever may be the surroundings, like a dirty…

— Nirmala Srivastava

I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really…

— Moby

“Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, Place on it the arrow of devotion; Then draw the bowstring of meditation And…

— Anonymous

“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

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.…

— Rajneesh

“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

For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.

— Tara Stiles

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

— Anonymous

I do a 15-minute meditation and breathing exercise every day after shooting. That helps me to come out of character.

— Mohit Raina

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

— Dalai Lama

The practice of understanding is the practice of meditation. To meditate is to look deeply into the heart of things.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

— Jaggi Vasudev

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be…

— Frederick Lenz

“The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them”

— Shri Radhe Maa

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

— Nirmala Srivastava

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom…

— Pema Chodron

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

— Eckhart Tolle

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

— Nhat Hanh

“Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.”

— Bryant McGill

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

— Jaggi Vasudev