Quotes About How Important Meditation Is

#1. Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#2. What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Frederick Lenz

#4. [On meditation] ... that's the single most important thing that I do ... there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.

Jennifer Beals

#5. I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Martin Chemnitz

#6. The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

Robert Thurman

#7. Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice,

Russell Okung

#8. Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

#9. Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Natalie Goldberg

#10. 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

#11. A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#12. All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Dalai Lama

#13. The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#15. The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

Maya Tiwari

#16. The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Ken Blanchard

#17. Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

Dalai Lama

#18. I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.

Roy Davis

#20. The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.

John Main

#21. Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Sometimes, it's important to turn off the noise from the outside world. Sometimes, it's critical to stop the banter even within oneself. Intentional solitude and quiet can make us strong for tomorrow.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#23. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Amit Ray

#24. The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Erica Jong

#25. The most important component of the system of Reiki at any level is one's own daily personal practice, meditation and self-healing. This is the foundation from which all healing experiences with the animals will
grow.

Kathleen Prasad

#26. Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#27. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.

Carlos Barrios

#28. It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Frederick Lenz

#29. The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.

Tim McCarthy

#30. Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Nhat Hanh

#31. I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

Alana Stewart

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

Radhe Maa