Meditation Quotes · Page 38

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

— Thomas Merton

“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.”

— Pema Chödrön

“Zen has no business with the dregs and sediments of sages of yore. 8.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.”

— Sereda Aleta Dailey

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

— Suzy Kassem

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.”

— Sharon Salzberg

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

— Ramana Maharshi

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen…

— Anonymous

“Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat.…

— Natalie Wright

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom…

— Anonymous

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to…

— Frederick Lenz

With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the…

— Teresa of Avila

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with…

— Richard Dawkins

“Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion…

— Thomas Cole

“From which moment is it considered saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence)? What is the beginning of saiyam? From…

— Dada Bhagwan

“There are two postures in Zazen—that is to say, the crossed-leg sitting, and the half crossed-leg sitting. Seat yourself on a thick…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In…

— Alice Sebold

“instead of being aware of your thoughts, you’re aware that you’re aware of your thoughts. You have turned the light of consciousness…

— Michael A. Singer

I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of…

— Jack Kornfield

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Worship offered with stale flower and an unclean mind is of no value”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Meditation is not what your mind does: whether it is silent or not. Meditation is what you do with your mind.”

— Satish Tripathi

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

— Armando Iannucci

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of…

— Rajneesh

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

— Rajneesh

Love should have no fear. It should have just free love, without any fear, without any aggression; enjoy that pure love.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

— Andrew Weil

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.

— Louise Hay

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Meditation is food for the soul We all need to practise it for a healthy,happy,energetic life

— Ritu Ghatourey

Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

— Rajneesh

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

— Tryon Edwards