Meditation Quotes · Page 87

“Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it…

— Frederick Lenz

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

— Daniel Goleman

“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!”

— Victor Hugo

“It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

— Frederick Lenz

“Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.”

— Nancy J. Napier & Carolyn Tricomi

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to…

— Aberjhani

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is…

— Joseph Campbell

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or…

— Frederick Lenz

“everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being…

— Earl Nightingale

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

— Rob Bell

Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you…

— Chogyam Trungpa

If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get…

— Marianne Williamson

“Recently, we uncovered an important mechanism by which a month of mindfulness meditation (about 11 hours of practice, 0.5 per day, 5…

— Elkhonon Goldberg

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“A gardener cannot make a seed grow. She can simply create the conditions for growth to occur and then patiently wait. A…

— Darren Main

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to…

— Anonymous

“I'm profoundly attracted to classical Zen literature, I have the gall to lecture on it and the literature of Mahayana Buddhism one…

— J.D. Salinger

I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is…

— Rajneesh

“As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

— Aldous Huxley

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

— Donna Karan

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

— Rajneesh

“Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

— Kapil Dev

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

— Harold Klemp

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.”

— J.F Hermann

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

— Christy Turlington

“The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world…

— Sheila Applegate

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

— Rajneesh

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

— Thomas Merton