Meditation Quotes · Page 88

FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE A FLOWING RIVER IT NEVER CARES ABOUT THE TOPOGRAPHY.

— Mrthrill

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

— Russell Simmons

“The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,”

— Jack Kerouac

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

— Jennifer Aniston

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

— Frederick Lenz

Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

— Sengcan

“Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not…

— Enza Vita

A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working.…

— Sakyong Mipham

“You are like the beach at dawn when the fog comes in; each of those things is lovely on its own, but…

— Deborah Blake

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why…

— Swami Vivekananda

I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is…

— Frederick Lenz

I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises…

— Arianna Huffington

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I…

— Alex Morgan

Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look…

— Nhat Hanh

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on…

— Gustave Courbet

What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone…

— Jon Sobrino

Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner…

— Gautama Buddha

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“But I saw your aura looking healthy again, then looking sick after a hunt. And you keep getting migraines. You should take…

— L.A. Weatherly

“TANTRA is a field that says neither abstain nor be obsessed. This can be handled by a few, even if you have…

— Anupama Garg

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

— Clarence Darrow

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

— Louise Hay

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

“As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!”

— Victor Hugo

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

— Nirmala Srivastava

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it…

— Frederick Lenz

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

— Daniel Goleman

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

— Harold Klemp

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.

— Rajneesh