Best Meditation Wisdom
2551 Meditation quotes by 611 unique authors
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To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation…
— Rajneesh
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Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever,…
— Rajneesh
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Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.
— Rajneesh
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Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of…
— Rajneesh
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Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
— Rajneesh
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Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life.…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be…
— Rajneesh
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The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu.…
— Rajneesh
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To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a…
— Rajneesh
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In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all.…
— Rajneesh
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When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far…
— Rajneesh
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The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts…
— Rajneesh
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Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to every individual -…
— Rajneesh
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Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender it to the…
— Rajneesh
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean…
— Rajneesh
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Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,…
— Rajneesh
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Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How…
— Stephen Covey
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
— Ajahn Chah
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There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something…
— Nhat Hanh
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Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow.…
— Sharon Salzberg
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