Meditation Quotes · Page 92

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

— Gautama Buddha

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

— Remez Sasson

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

— Uma Thurman

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

— Eknath Easwaran

“The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

— Idries Shah

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious,…

— Frederick Lenz

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still…

— Frederick Lenz

“The goal of meditation is not to shut down the mind but rather to open it and let it be reflected in…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

— Frederick Lenz

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was…

— Brian Wilson

“Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love,…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how…

— Peter Kinderman

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive…

— Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which…

— Rajneesh

I need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga…

— Tricia Helfer

Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and…

— Muriel Barbery

Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created…

— Rajneesh

Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of…

— Andrew Weil

Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through…

— Caroline Myss

“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of…

— Sharon Salzberg

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

— Anonymous

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

— Frederick Lenz

“FANTASIES It’s not a problem to build castles in the air; it becomes a problem when we start living in them.”

— Amar Ochani

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

— Thomas Cole

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

— Melissa Rauch

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own…

— Swami Vivekananda

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Simply BEING is OKAY you know? If you make space to 'be', your 'doing' becomes whole and balanced.”

— Kelly Martin

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

— Robert Gottlieb

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

— Sarah MacLean

“Zen is relevant as long as human beings are in close proximity to one another.”

— VD

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer