Meditation Course Quotes

#1. I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Rivers Cuomo

#2. Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.

Mallika Chopra

#3. Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#4. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God, is to lose a sense of the very thing that distinguishes God as God.

A.J. Conyers

#6. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Phyllis Diller

#8. By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

Radhe Maa

#9. 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

#10. Universe responds to the person who meditates daily.

Sandeep Kakkar

#11. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#12. No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Natalie Wright

#13. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

J.I. Packer

#14. I watch mostly every martial arts movie ... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

Tony Jaa

#15. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...

Rajneesh

#16. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

Rajneesh

#17. 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

#18. If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

Frederick Lenz

#21. close your eyes, count 1 through 10 and then open your eyes again. Those ten seconds will allow you to eliminate the itching sensation of doing something else. This technique is actually a form of quick meditation that can make you become a more focused person in due course.

Mark Haldin

#22. I smoke weed, of course. That's like meditation for me. Watching movies is a really good escape as well.

Wiz Khalifa

#23. One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Peter McWilliams

#25. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Dalai Lama

#26. Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Ajahn Chah

#27. Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Rajneesh

#29. "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Eckhart Tolle

#30. Surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to calm and soothe a disturbed mind

Teresa Spelman

#31. Just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

Kabir

#32. At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Ringo Starr

#33. Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

Rajneesh

#34. If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.

Osho

#35. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

Shirley Maclaine

#36. The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#37. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

Rabindranath Tagore

#39. Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Sting

#40. You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Amit Ray

#41. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

Sharon Salzberg

#42. When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When

Jack Kornfield

#43. Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.

Aporva Kala

#45. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

Gautama Buddha

#46. The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

Mooji

#47. Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence - which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Rajneesh

#48. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Ram Dass

#49. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

Radhe Maa

#50. Captain, your fecal aroma is disturbing our meditation." "I

Lindsay Buroker

#51. If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.

Sri Chinmoy

#52. What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

Sri Chinmoy

#53. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

Frederick Lenz

#54. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

Sharon Salzberg

#55. The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

Tara Brach

#57. When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.

Frederick Lenz

#58. I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

Richard Simmons