Meditation Quotes · Page 83

Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

— Robert Linssen

“If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.”

— Sharon Salzberg

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

— Marianne Williamson

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“If in doubt, go running. Solutions to problems come to you. It clarifies your mind. It's a meditation of sorts.”

— Lisa Tamati

Spirituality is not about becoming special - it is about becoming one with everything.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

— Seungsahn

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

— Shunryu Suzuki

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what’s present from a perspective that is both detached…

— David Allen

The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in…

— Pico Iyer

“We attach to anything or anybody because we think that they make us happy. We attach to the happiness so much. On…

— Suman Jyoty Bhante

I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in…

— Albert Hofmann

“Procrastination is the enemy of accomplishment—not simply because the task you are avoiding fails to get done, but because all of your…

— Darren Main

When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing…

— Rajneesh

When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a…

— Amit Ray

“In order to benefit yogis and yoginis who are applying themselves diligently in the preliminary practices and guru yoga, like rivers of…

— Nida Chenagtsang

“The force of a visualization (which is a chain of intended and purposeful thoughts) can help you tap into the right energy…

— Om Swami

What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us…

— Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as…

— Sue Thoele

“Nen is mindfulness, attention to the present with a quality of vibrant awareness, as if this present moment were one’s last.”

— Peter Matthiessen

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

— Bodhidharma

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.

— Yamaoka Tesshu

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Exercising has a calming influence on me. It's almost like a meditation.

— Rahul Dev

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

— Sharon Salzberg

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

— Swami Satchidananda

“The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

“relaxations increase our joy and we need meditations for inner peace and clarity”

— Kishore Bansal

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

— Dolph Lundgren

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

— Gautama Buddha

We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

— Timothy Morton

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become…

— Gautama Buddha