Meditation Quotes
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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman
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Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.
Virginia Postrel
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I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.
Nina Kuscsik
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
Gautama Buddha
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What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.
Dan Harris
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When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
Marianne Williamson
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
in the midst of so much turbulence.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.
Billy Joel
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I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.
William Shakespeare
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Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil
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Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
Darren Main
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In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.
Barbara Hurd
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
Vance Havner
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All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
David Fontana
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Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
Alice Coltrane
