Meditation Quotes · Page 79

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the…

— Nhat Hanh

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

— Jack Kornfield

“Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.”

— Darren Main

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

— Mike Love

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

— Alber Elbaz

“Not having the slightest abhorrence towards any nimit (instrumental doer) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

— Jaggi Vasudev

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

— Amit Ray

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not…

— Bruce Lee

“When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens.…

— Upasaka Culadasa

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize,…

— Moby

“The Path emphasizes that self-restraint, self-discipline, and the practice of mindfulness and meditation can help put an end to suffering.”

— Michael Williams

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is…

— Anonymous

“The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.”

— Pema Chödrön

“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy…

— Matthew Gallaway

Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my…

— Jane Fonda

To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.…

— Ajahn Chah

Mindfulness can create a foundation for emotional bonding that allows you to be fully present and authentic during dialogues or a discussion.…

— George Kohlrieser

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To…

— Bodhidharma

“Repeat the four stanzas below four times each. May I be at peace. May my heart remain open. May I awaken to…

— Chiasson MD, Ann Marie

If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,…

— Rajneesh

Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the…

— Liz Miller

When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean…

— Bokar Rinpoche

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

— Dalai Lama

“I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things”

— Stephen Chbosky

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

— Hakuin Ekaku

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation to the past.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

— Peter Lindbergh

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

— Robert Sheckley

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

— Goldie Hawn

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

— Jaggi Vasudev

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.

— Nirmala Srivastava

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

— Frederick Lenz

Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.”

— Amit Ray

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

— Midge Decter

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

— Rajneesh