Meditation Quotes · Page 64

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

— Bo Lozoff

The practice of understanding is the practice of meditation. To meditate is to look deeply into the heart of things.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

— Frederick Lenz

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

— Aristotle

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

— Frederick Lenz

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Remembering the past that hurts is like carrying the baggage which just makes heart heavy.”

— Tonmoy Acharjee

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

— Augusten Burroughs

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can…

— Deepak Chopra

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting…

— Frederick Lenz

Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen.…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on…

— D.T. Suzuki

The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…

— Ezra Pound

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right…

— Sylvia Boorstein

“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.…

— Isabel Allende

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“It has been said that the body is the temple of the spirit and the mind is the altar within that temple.…

— Darren Main

“Zen holds that the faith must be based not on the dead Scriptures, but on living facts, that one must turn over…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Mindfulness works out your brain and builds ‘thinking roads’ that enable you to be less fearful of the future and the now,…

— Patrizia Collard

The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from…

— Maximus the Confessor

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

— Eckhart Tolle

Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.

— Frederick Lenz

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

— Guru Nanak

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Ψ Some say that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to Him. Works for me. Ψ”

— Doug Dillon

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

— Frederick Lenz

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and…

— Jaggi Vasudev

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

— Ariana Grande

“You will feel when the mediation is complete. The joy and healing will remain for all time.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

— Dalai Lama

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

— Goldie Hawn

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

— Frederick Lenz

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

— Frederick Lenz