Meditation Quotes

Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.

Sam Keen
- Meditation
- Abuse
While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy

Ian Gawler
- People
- May
- Experience

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Chogyam Trungpa
- World
- Good
- Trying
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

Finley Peter Dunne
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

Chogyam Trungpa
- World
- Good
- Practice
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Rachel Johnson
- Why
- History
- Age
I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

Keke Palmer
- Done
- Taken
- Couple
When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?

Leonard Shlain
- Up
- Book
- Culture