Quotes About Meditation

#1. May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

Lysa TerKeurst

#2. Meditation helps.

Isabel Allende

#3. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois

#4. Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Rajneesh

#5. Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

Rajneesh

#6. Love is the shortcut to meditation. Above thought is love, and within and below thought is love. Love is a ladder that we can climb through thought.

Frederick Lenz

#7. With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

Donna Karan

#8. When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Meditation is not required to be one with self. All that is required is that you be about oneself, maintain oneself, and be true to oneself and your chakras will be aligned and your 3rd eye will no longer be blind.

Kenneth G. Ortiz

#10. I was trained in the Society of the Inner Light. Now that requires that you spend a certain amount of time in meditation, it also requires that you spend this time in early morning, because they say you're closer to the sleep state at that point.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#11. Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

Sebastian Pole

#12. Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.

Waylon H. Lewis

#13. A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It's not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

Moby

#14. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

Rajneesh

#15. I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.

Allison McAtee

#16. True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Adyashanti

#17. At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

Frederick Lenz

#18. Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Gautama Buddha

#19. You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Rajneesh

#20. Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

Ramana Maharshi

#21. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#22. He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Hermann Hesse

#23. After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Wes "Scoop" Nisker

#24. Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Amit Ray

#25. Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires.

Girdhar Joshi

#26. What I have to say about meditation boils down to this: it never hurts. It always helps. It costs nothing, and it improves everything.

Rebecca Pacheco

#27. What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

Sharon Salzberg

#28. There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

Dan Harris

#29. Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Ray Dalio

#30. Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

H.E. Davey

#31. One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

Matthew Hayden

#32. Sometimes you just don't know, what you just don't know until you know it.

If anyone says that meditation and spirituality are weird, tell them the definition of weird is supernatural, and that you'll takes supernatural over mundane any day.

Martha Du'sage

#33. Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

Robert Ardrey

#34. I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

Ringo Starr

#35. By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques.

Frederick Lenz

#36. For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Jess Row

#37. Meditation is a way of finding inner quietness and inner tranquility.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

Nhat Hanh

#39. The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#40. There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Sharon Salzberg

#41. At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

Aaron Hoopes

#42. In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

Pema Chodron

#43. When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

Choa Kok Sui

#44. Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

Christmas Humphreys

#45. You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.

Sharon Salzberg

#46. This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is ... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.

David Lynch

#47. Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

Sri Chinmoy

#48. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

Baruch Spinoza

#49. Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Ikkyu

#50. In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.

Rajneesh

#51. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#52. Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#53. The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

John Main

#54. We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

Pema Chodron

#55. Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Sylvain Tesson

#56. Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Ajahn Chah

#57. Eating the peach is a meditation. Your mind empties of all the must dos and should have dones. You are pure being. Your lover's tongue is the key that turns the lock that opens the pleasure box. Life has few perfect moments; moments of cunnilingus score the highest on the sex blissometer.

Chloe Thurlow

#58. It's like having ... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

Jerry Seinfeld

#59. Letting go - abandoning, relinquishing - is actually the same mind state as generosity. So the practice of giving deeply influences the feeling tone of our meditation practice, and vice versa.

Sharon Salzberg

#60. Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.

Jamgon Kongtrul

#61. No one ought to expect to see much good resulting from his labors in word, and doctrine, if he is not much given to prayer and meditation.

George Muller

#62. Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Celine Dion

#63. Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

Frederick Lenz

#64. Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.

Max Horkheimer

#65. Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

David Lynch

#66. Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.

Thomas Merton

#67. Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Kathleen McDonald

#68. Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state.

Ramana Maharshi

#69. an internal form of acting, a meditation, a meditation that consciously reconnects you to all life everywhere. It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

#70. The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that!" A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, "My partner should really meet you!"

Sharon Salzberg

#71. Meditation is not about doing something

Joko Beck

#72. Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

Misty Copeland

#73. The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

Stephen Beal

#74. If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#75. In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Fulton J. Sheen

#76. In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

Frederick Lenz

#77. True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Swami Paramananda

#78. 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

#79. I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation ... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Lindsay Lohan

#80. Meditation isn't about what's happening; it's about how you relate to what's happening.

Sharon Salzberg

#81. A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Julia Cameron

#82. Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.

Frederick Lenz

#83. Through meditation, difficult thoughts and emotions may well rise up. And through practice, you can meet such emotions with kindness, listen to them, explore them and then really let them go.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#84. Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Rajneesh

#85. A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#86. Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness

Amit Ray

#87. The process of constantly returning to love is called Meditation. When you abide in love effortlessly, it is Realization.

Yogi Kanna

#88. Let the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart be acceptable
in your sight, my
redeemer.

Akosiastroboy

#89. Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

Frederick Lenz

#90. Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

Frederick Lenz

#91. Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Sharon Salzberg

#92. You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#93. Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

David Lynch

#94. Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#95. Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Marianne Williamson

#96. Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.

Brandon Bays

#97. When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

Deborah King

#98. Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Rajneesh

#99. Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

Frederick Lenz

#100. Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.

Louise Hay