Great Meditation Quotes

#1. In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
Just go on becoming more and more aware
you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
It will bring great fulfilment

Rajneesh

#3. You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

Ilchi Lee

#4. Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#5. If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. Meditation has been really helpful for me and music and great books. Deep down, it's just that I feel a connection to music and books when I can find that other people have gone through similar things.

Mason Jennings

#7. Meditation has become an ingrained part of my everyday life that helps me feel so much more centered, patient and compassionate. It even gives me great physical energy.

Tim McCarthy

#8. Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

Rajneesh

#9. If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

Ram Dass

#10. Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!

Frederick Lenz

#11. The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

Rick Springfield

#12. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Gautama Buddha

#13. People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

Frederick Lenz

#14. To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

Rajneesh

#15. Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

Roseanne Barr

#19. It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love - loving ourselves as well as others.

Bernie Siegel

#20. I suggest people simply start off meditation by practicing twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes, and explore what it's like to meditate. The stress reduction and mental peace starts to become a highly desirable state. After all, it's great to let go of the worries of life!

Tim McCarthy

#21. All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

David Fontana

#22. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein

#23. I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

George Harrison

#24. If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great.

Radhe Maa

#25. Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

Dogen

#27. Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Ariana Grande

#28. I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Amanda Palmer

#29. Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

Ramakrishna

#30. Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

Miranda Kerr

#31. Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

James Vila Blake

#32. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Teresa Of Avila

#33. You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

#34. Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Huineng

#35. Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.

Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

#36. No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Walter Bagehot

#37. Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#38. If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

Gautama Buddha

#39. During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

Ching Hai

#40. If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

Rajiv Mehrotra

#41. A person is a great process, a bridge from animal to Soul. But we do not know about it

Anatoliy Obraztsov

#42. Don't be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don't rise or fall with them. What's so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can't help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Ajahn Chah

#43. The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Jack Kornfield

#45. Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

Teresa Of Avila

#46. Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

#47. There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

Rod Stryker

#48. What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

Jaggi Vasudev

#49. A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

Gautama Buddha

#50. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

John Kennedy Toole

#51. Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Gary Snyder

#52. I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life ... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#53. Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.

Richard Brancatisano

#54. Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Frederick Lenz

#55. We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Peace Pilgrim

#56. A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

Matthew Henry

#57. Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Leonard Bernstein

#58. Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

Ziggy Marley

#59. Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.

Sally Fitzgibbons