Meditative Quotes

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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires… — Philip Yancey
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
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for… — Rajneesh
Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living… — Rajneesh
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible.… — Rajneesh
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man… — Karel Capek
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened… — Anagarika Govinda
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for… — Jack Kornfield
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
I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative!… — Rajneesh
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like… — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will… — Rajneesh
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation.… — Rajneesh
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is… — Rajneesh
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. — Rajneesh
An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full… — Rajneesh
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being -… — Rajneesh
It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the… — John Joseph O'Connor
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes… — Lewis Carroll
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had… — Joyce Tenneson

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