Meditation Quotes · Page 52

“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

— Jack Kornfield

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

— Roy Horn

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine.

— Nirmala Srivastava

There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself

— Shri Radhe Maa

I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.

— Daisy Lowe

“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.”

— T. Scott McLeod

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Meditation is good for relaxation, and calming of the soul. Just pay attention to your life and you will always see the…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely…

— Kodo Sawaki

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step…

— Ajahn Chah

Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind,…

— Frederick Lenz

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention…

— Amit Ray

I've been moved in recent days by Psalm 104:34-35: "I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will…

— Cliff Barrows

The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and…

— Ramana Maharshi

There's a DVD called 'The Secret.' It's like visualization and meditation, certain methods I use before games, visualizing the games before they…

— Trey Burke

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then…

— Gautama Buddha

“Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to…

— Pema Chödrön

Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“8. Change as seen by Zen. Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transience, but it has come to a…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on…

— Thom S. Rainer

All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of…

— Nirmala Srivastava

I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

— Yvonne Strahovski

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

— Deepak Chopra

“Just as physical exercise builds muscle, mindful awareness practice builds attentional focus and flexibility.”

— Patricia A. Jennings

Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

— Finley Peter Dunne

“The contraction is concentration; the expansion is medita­tion. The movement is thought.”

— Ernest Egerton Wood

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.”

— Sharon Salzberg

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

— Sakyong Mipham

“art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality”

— Donald Barthelme

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

— Moby

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

— Jack Kornfield

On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.

— Simone Giertz

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

— Elizabeth Vargas

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

— Deepak Chopra