Meditation Quotes · Page 84

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

— Heather Graham

“The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.”

— Allan Lokos

“In the stillness of meditation, a cup of tea becomes a source of comfort and nourishment for the mind, body, and soul.”

— Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

— Idries Shah

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

— Santigold

“You are divine, when you accept yourself, when you believe in yourself.”

— Amit Ray

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

— Adrian Rogers

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

— Owen Feltham

“Meditation, godliness, enlightenment, nirvana, they all came into being through love, because through love a glimpse was achieved. And when the glimpse…

— Osho

The joys received through prayer, meditation, and contemplation are the highest of all joys which cannot be given by the world. All…

— Senoraroy

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To…

— Marge Piercy

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with…

— Frederick Lenz

“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.”

— Sharon Salzberg

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet…

— Rajneesh

“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,…

— René Descartes

“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other…

— Ray Simpson

“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” “I was there!”-surely…

— Peter Matthiessen

“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and…

— Herman Wouk

Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“How about making a personal commitment never to go to sleep without having meditated that day, even if for just one minute?”

— Rick Hanson

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

— Swami Muktananda

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

— Sai Baba

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

— Dalai Lama

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

— Samuel Johnson

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

— Bill W

“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

— Ajahn Brahm

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

— Dharma Mittra

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

— Dan Harris

Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go…

— Frederick Lenz

Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

— John Feldmann

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

— Rajneesh

“Mindfulness gives freedom from negative and fixed mindset to positive and growth mindset.”

— Amit Ray