Quotes About The Best Meditation

#1. Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Milarepa

#4. Meditation is the best engineering.

Kedar Joshi

#5. Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.

Tim McCarthy

#9. People ask me, "Why do you do walking meditation?" The best answer I can give is, "Because I like it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

Santigold

#11. 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

#12. The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#13. The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#14. Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#15. There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.

Steven Cuoco

#16. 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

#17. The yoga asana practice was developed to get the body in the best physical condition possible, so that the yoga practitioner would be able to sit for many hours comfortably in meditation. In order to reach the higher spiritual vibrations we must be as strong, flexible and open as possible.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#18. Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

Eknath Easwaran

#19. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Hugh Jackman

#20. The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

Jack Kornfield

#21. I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Music, dance and meditation are the best medicine for body, soul and spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Shunryu Suzuki

#24. If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

Bryant McGill

#25. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#26. Lucky people seem to create an alternative support system - faith, prayer, hobbies, meditation, friends - to tide over their bad phases and are thus able to use such periods to the best of their abilities.

Ashwin Sanghi

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

Frederick Lenz

#28. All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

Harvey Penick

#29. Meditation is the best means of elongating life

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#30. Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.

Roshan Sharma

#31. The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.

Carolyn Murphy

#32. If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

Frederick Lenz

#33. An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Jane Austen

#34. Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#35. Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.

Tohoru Masamune

#36. The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.

Deepak Chopra

#37. How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

Leza Lowitz

#39. Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

Jaggi Vasudev

#40. Ah. but that is the best form of meditation: to live simply in the moment and enjoy it.

Kim Fielding

#41. Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best - solve problems.

Bryant McGill