Meditation Quotes

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Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Sharon Salzberg

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

William Martin (novelist)

Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.

If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.

James Van Praagh

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

The very aim of meditation is firstly subjugation of the mind, so that it can no longer be an obstacle to a clear vision of the Supreme cliché. Secondly, it is the full silencing of that mind, so that consciousness becomes similar to the mirror-like surface of a quiet lake or pool. I can see the real Reflection of Truth in it then, but not otherwise.

Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Hortense Calisher

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Matthieu Ricard

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

Neale Donald Walsch

Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

Marianne Williamson

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

James H. Austin

Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.

Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.

Forest Ray Moulton

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating... The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti