Art Meditation Quotes

#1. The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

Rajneesh

#2. Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

Gennaro Moccia

#4. Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#5. The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Rajneesh

#6. Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.

Frederick Lenz

#7. That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you've tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it's barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose.

Adrian J. Walker

#8. A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

William Butler Yeats

#9. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Elvis Presley

#10. Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

Rama Swami

#11. Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Rajneesh

#12. Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.

Naum Gabo

#13. The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

Isaac D'Israeli

#14. Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#15. Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#16. Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

Rajneesh

#17. Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

Rajneesh

#18. Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.

Joshua Becker

#19. Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#20. Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name
suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Gina Greenlee

#21. The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Inking is meditation in liquid form...

J.H. Everett

#23. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

H.E. Davey

#24. Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Jackson Beck

#25. The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

Rajneesh

#26. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.

Manprit Kaur

#27. Can one n/ever not think? ... Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking

Ijosephi Lowly Worm

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

Amit Ray

#29. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality

Donald Barthelme

#31. You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#32. You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.

Rajneesh

#33. Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

Bryant McGill

#34. You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.

Sukhraj S. Dhillon

#35. We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Ben Foster

#36. The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you exhale. When it inhales, you inhale. You live in it, are not separate, are one with it.

Rajneesh

#37. Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Thomas Merton

#39. The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

Asanaro

#40. We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

Alan Watts

#41. If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

#42. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash

#43. All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

Rajneesh

#44. For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

Frederick Lenz