Meditation Quotes

• Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Pretty
  • Walking
  • Meditation

• To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.

  

  Andrew Roberts
  • Genius
  • Reflection
  • Meditation

• Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Relationship
  • Learning
  • Mechanical Technique

• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Reality

• Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Life
  • Meditation

• Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Friend

• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Peace

• Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Thoughts

• Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Success

• I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Practice

• Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • God
  • School
  • Soul

• I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Past

• Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Thinking
  • Meditation

• Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Life
  • Time
  • Energy

• Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Good
  • Live
  • Parents

• The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

  

  James Allen
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Meditation

• When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet

  

  B. Alan Wallace
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Soul
  • Meditation

• Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Boat
  • Measure

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