Meditation Quotes · Page 81

“Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.”

— Andy Stanley

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

— James Harrington

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

— Gautama Buddha

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

— Rajneesh

If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“Where there is dhyan (meditation; internal state of being), there is no egoism and where there is egoism, there is no dhyan.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.”

— Hermann Hesse

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

— Nirmala Srivastava

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

— Frederick Lenz

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking…

— Ramana Maharshi

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my…

— Neri Oxman

“Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and…

— Kyle Idleman

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

— Frederick Lenz

[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes…

— Rajneesh

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless,…

— Anonymous

“People slip spontaneously into moments of concentration all the time—while reading a book, exercising, playing chess, or creating art. A yogi seeks…

— Darren Main

“Pain is powerful medicine. While it may be unpleasant to take this medicine, it is what shapes and inspires us. As you…

— Darren Main

“When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast…

— Amit Ray

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Some incidents can make us angry. Anger may accompany us along a road we have not always chosen freely to walk. Outrage…

— Erik Pevernagie

Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.…

— Ajahn Chah

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.…

— Ramana Maharshi

Integrity is not about the action but its purpose. Are you doing it for everyone's wellbeing or for your own benefit?

— Jaggi Vasudev

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

— Stephen Levine

“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda”

— Paramahamsa Nithyananda

You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and…

— Darren Main

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.

— Fritjof Capra

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”

— Sylvia Boorstein

Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

— K. Pattabhi Jois

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

— Alex Ebert

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

— Frederick Lenz