Meditation Quotes · Page 72

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

— Nirmala Srivastava

If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

— Rajneesh

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

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

— Catherine Doherty

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

— Andy Stanley

Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation…

— Frederick Lenz

How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that…

— Frederick Lenz

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that…

— J. I. Packer

When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation…

— Choa Kok Sui

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

— Swami Vivekananda

Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts…

— Anonymous

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and…

— Anonymous

“Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own…

— Karen Maezen Miller

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand,…

— Gudjon Bergmann

“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.…

— Thomas Brooks

“By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the…

— Thomas Cole

“Your life is like a car which moves sometimes with jerks caused by the dirt in its gas as if it has…

— Osho

The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for…

— Rajneesh

“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

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.”

— Pema Chödrön

You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it…

— Mooji

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

— Lin Yutang

“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.”

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace.

— Doreen Virtue

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

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

— Lisa Jones

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

— Donna Reed

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