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Meditation Quotes by Eknath Easwaran
- 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.…
- Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.
- Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention…
- As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible;…
- Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl…
- Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more…
- Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose…
- This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.
- Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
- We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all…
More Meditation Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in… — Teresa of Avila
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch… — Roseanne Barr
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings
- I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. — Russell Brand
- When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your… — David Brainerd
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck
- The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation… — Gisele Bundchen