Meditation Quotes · Page 77

Praise the one who speaks ill of you. Before long he will become a friend.

— Shri Radhe Maa

“Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

— Amit Ray

It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

— Deepak Chopra

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

— Swami Paramananda

“When the Self (Atma) becomes engrossed (tanmayakar) in the resultant states of the mind, then meditation (dhyan) arises.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

“It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so…

— Thomas Merton

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…

— Sinclair Lewis

The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase…

— Frederick Lenz

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards…

— Etty Hillesum

“While there is nothing wrong with practicing martial arts, meditating, reading and studying, or even eating pie, excess in any of these…

— Bohdi Sanders

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

— Anonymous

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in…

— Carla Hall

“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“This is like beginning to read a book. When we start, we will often be interrupted by many distractions around us. But…

— Jack Kornfield

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign…

— David Hume

“It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers’ shops, the stacks of new-minted silver…

— Ken Follett

Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside…

— Rajneesh

“When both the inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Aristotle

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“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

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

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

— Andrew Cohen

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

— Anonymous

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

— Wes Nisker

“Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I look at people and then try to understand the state of mind they're in. It's sort of a meditation for me.

— Sunil Grover

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

— Sharon Salzberg