Meditation Quotes · Page 71

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.”

— Norman Fischer

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

— Ramana Maharshi

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

— Frederick Lenz

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the…

— Brenda Shoshanna

“Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.”

— Sharon Salzberg

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

— Frederick Lenz

Yoga, meditation, and unplugging the phone at night to make sure I get enough hours of sleep. That's huge for athletes.

— Andre Iguodala

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“One thing about the om meditation is certain: It is a universal sound that is representative of the unity that’s needed to…

— Amy Leigh Mercree

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

— Joel Meyerowitz

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have…

— Rajneesh

“Relaxation exercises, breathing techniques, meditations, guided imagery techniques, and visualizations are simply the tools used to experience yoga nidra. A”

— Julie T. Lusk

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension…

— Sarah McLachlan

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give…

— Frederick Lenz

Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste.…

— Rajneesh

Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to…

— Anonymous

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is…

— Anonymous

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine…

— Rene Descartes

In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person.…

— Rajneesh

I put my children first, but I always keep my obligations or my commitments. You really have to do some internal work…

— Rachel Roy

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time,…

— Mooji

If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing…

— Bernie Siegel

“The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting…

— Russell Simmons

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

— D.T. Suzuki

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

— Al Franken

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

— Bryan Kest

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

— Ram Dass

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

— Tara Brach

“In the stillness, we find clarity. In the simplicity, we find depth. And in the practice, we begin to find ourselves.”

— Arjan Singh

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you.

— Deepak Chopra

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

— Robin Williams

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

— Swami Vivekananda

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

— David Fontana

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

— Richard Hittleman

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

— Swami Vivekananda

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

— Frederick Lenz