Best Meditation Sayings
2551 Meditation quotes by 611 unique authors
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The act of meditation is being spacious.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
— David A. Bader
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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
— Swami Paramananda
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If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.
— Rajneesh
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth…
— Rudolf Steiner
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
— Ramana Maharshi
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Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates…
— Peter McWilliams
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If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and…
— Rama Swami
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
— Natalie Goldberg
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
— Teresa of Avila
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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.
— Rajneesh
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Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.
— Swami Muktananda
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Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence.…
— Yogaswami
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear…
— Peter Matthiessen
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Meditation is listening to the divine within
— Edgar Cayce
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.…
— Dalai Lama
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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds.…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
— Dan Millman
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There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,…
— Rajneesh
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We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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