Meditation Quotes · Page 79

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

— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

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

“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

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

— Ariana Grande

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Goldie Hawn

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

— Frederick Lenz

The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and…

— Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not…

— Osho

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within…

— Laozi

When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

— Alan Watts

“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout…

— Frederick Lenz

“There is no reason why mindfulness should be different from focusing all one’s attention on one’s work, to be alert and to…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private…

— Stephen Batchelor

Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about…

— Tim Ryan

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from…

— Gautama Buddha

“You can do it at any time. You can do it when you are sitting in a bus – that is, watch,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern…

— Alan Wilson Watts

We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its…

— Anodea Judith

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Frederick Lenz

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

— Hakuin Ekaku

“Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.”

— Elton Trueblood

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

— Joko Beck

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

— Matthieu Ricard

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

— Nirmala Srivastava

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

— Emile Durkheim

“Unless you are silent, you will not know your urgent heart, how it beats between the thin skin of yes and no.”

— Drew Myron

I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

— Joe Sacco

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

— Frederick Lenz

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

— Meister Eckhart

“Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”

— Gautama Buddha

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

— Frederick Lenz

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

— Laozi