Meditation Meditation Quotes

Mindfulness meditation practice will help you discern which thoughts support your goals and well-being and which thoughts are destructive or unhealthy and should be discarded. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it's easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart. ~ Sharon Salzberg

There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation. ~ Nhat Hanh

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God. ~ Amit Ray

Long distance running is meditation. When I finish a long run, it's like my brain has been washed. All the stress and negative thoughts are left somewhere on those long kilometers. At the end, the illusions of the past and future are removed from my mind, and it is set back to zero, so I feel I am totally in the present moment, reset, and ready to restart my life afresh. ~ Robert Black

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. ~ C.S. Lewis

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain. ~ David Brazzeal

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation. ~ David Lynch

The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature.
Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power.
We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities.
If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation. ~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

As the grounding effect of breath awareness disengages you from the often-overwhelming chatter of the mind, the level at which you think will seem to transcend the noise. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

So real was this vision that I could hear the deity's sweet voice explain that there is a specific meditation for connecting with the Celestial Wisdom! Witnessing Kuan Yin lie face down on the Oriental Carpet with arms outstretched over Her head, I watched as Her thumb and forefinger formed a triangle It was then that Kuan Yin further explained the significance of this specific meditation's mudra; that it acts similar to a capstone on an obelisk - drawing wisdom to one who has demonstrated intention to be a teacher of wisdom. ~ Hope Bradford Cht

Mindfulness practice can teach us about the nature of thinking, and perhaps even more importantly, it can teach us that we are not our thoughts. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

I used to think meditation served the purpose of clearing my mind of dreams. Good and bad, dreams do affect us in our daily mood. Now I wonder if meditation unlocks them, utilizes the wisdom that has been sent to us by our subconscious. ~ Robert Black

No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation. ~ Rajneesh

Time and time again, technology, along with advances in neuroscience and even genetics, seems to be validating things our ancestors knew all along by revealing exactly what happens physiologically during meditation and how regular practice can improve our bodies and minds. ~ Benjamin W Decker

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz

Whether you've never meditated before or you've been doing it religiously for years, it is always good to evaluate (or re-evaluate) your practice. Although I've been meditating and teaching it for years, I still enjoy reading new information about it, learning new techniques, and checking out new meditation recordings. There is always something to learn because there are as many ways to meditate as there are people who are doing it. ~ Liberty Forrest

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

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. ~ William Wilberforce

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer - if we take the time to stop and tune in. ~ Sharon Salzberg

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

In my personal recovery, mindfulness has helped me to become aware of my trauma responses and given me an anchor to stay present when I have been triggered. Being able to feel my triggers without reacting must be largely credited to learning to anchor myself in my body through mindful body scan meditation. ~ Christopher Dines

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation. ~ Rajneesh

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation. ~ Rajneesh

You are a pure soul"
Is it so? What is that?
How you recognize a soul?
Even if it is there as something, is there pure and impure two types?
or in multiple version?
Look within to find it out...... ~ Ansh Part Of You

We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have. ~ Kat Lahr

Count on your beginner's mind to help you through any times when you might feel resistant or self-conscious about your practice. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation. ~ Rajneesh

Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns,fears, dreams and anger. ~ Amit Ray

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. ~ Jack Kornfield

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it. ~ Sharon Salzberg

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are. ~ Adyashanti

If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. ( ... ). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation. ~ Pema Chodron

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness. ~ Nhat Hanh

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ~ Walter Bagehot

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way - with awareness, balance, and love ~ Sharon Salzberg

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

If the Universe is perceiving itself through us, this would explain why meditation is beneficial to our wellbeing, because when we meditate we see the Universe with more clarity, and are thus being rewarded by it. ~ Robert Black

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation. ~ Robin Williams

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. ~ Rajneesh

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values. ~ Sharon Salzberg

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart. ~ Amit Ray

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation. ~ Nicole Eggert

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation. ~ Frederick Lenz

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation. ~ Jim Yong Kim

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation. ~ John Hagelin

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. ~ Ilchi Lee

Causing harm is never just a one-way street. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA ~ Amit Ray

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2). ~ Christina Feldman

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. ~ Alan Watts

To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center. ~ Frederick Lenz

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ~ Swami Sivananda

Silence is the highest form of meditation. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Meditation isn't only the act of successfully keeping your attention on the breath, it's the whole period of time you spend with the intention to observe the breath. It is this intention and its application - not your success at achieving perfect concentration - that is responsible for the benefits of meditation. ~ David Cain

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. ~ Joel Meyerowitz

Meditation is the brain's way to exercise. ~ Abhijit Naskar

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

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. ~ Jack Kornfield

A mind in the present moment is meditation. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?" ~ Eckhart Tolle

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation. ~ Choa Kok Sui

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence. ~ Stephen Richards

The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation. ~ Deepak Chopra

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now. ~ Ilchi Lee

Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location. ~ Frederick Lenz

My workout is my meditation. ~ Kyle MacLachlan

Meditation is interacting with truth inside and scientific research is interacting with truth outside. Both are required for human evolution, emancipation and empowerment. ~ Amit Ray

The best meditation app is not an app, but the human mind. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The idea that traumatic residues - or unresolved stories - can be inherited is groundbreaking. ~ Sharon Salzberg

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation. ~ Samael Aun Weor

Meditation is listening to the divine within ~ Edgar Cayce

If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone. ~ Rajneesh

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation. ~ Kristian Bush

Meditation is choosing not to engage in the drama of mind but elevating the mind to its highest potential. ~ Amit Ray

There is a difference between receiving the word of God and receiving a Word from God.
Receiving the word of God through a medium such as a Preacher is a prerequisite for receiving A Word from God, it sets out a foundation for you to further the time in meditation where you will receive a word from God regarding the word you received. The Power of Meditation. ~ Robert Junior

There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute. ~ Frederick Lenz

Meditation directly impacts our nervous system by reducing the body's production of stress-related chemicals such as cortisol. It's a great way to recharge our personal battery. ~ Laurie Buchanan, PhD

For me, painting is like meditation. ~ Janet Fish

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. ~ Isaac Newton

Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation. ~ Frederick Lenz

Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea there may be a multitude of waves but the sea is not affected below. In its deepest depths, the sea is all silence. When we start meditating, first we try to reach our own inner existence, our true existence- that is to say, the bottom of the sea. Then when the waves come from the outside world, we are not affected. Fear, doubt, worry and all the earthly turmoils just wash away, because inside us is solid peace. Thoughts cannot touch us, because our mind is all peace, all silence, all oneness. Like fish in the sea, they jump and swim but leave no mark. When we are in our highest meditation, we feel that we are the sea, and the animals in the sea cannot affect us. We feel that we are the sky, and all the birds flying past cannot affect us. Our mind is the sky and our heart is the infinite sea. This is meditation. ~ Sri Chinmoy

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves. ~ Sharon Salzberg

The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation. ~ Frederick Lenz

With a beginner's mind, we can all become more fluid in our understanding and thereby pave the way for a more fulfilling and balanced future. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation. ~ Samael Aun Weor

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation. ~ Rajneesh

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ Alan W. Watts

Sitting for meditation is the classic technique for a reason: Being physically still can help you still your mind. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Meditation is not a posture. Instead it is a state of awakened consciousness. Awakened consciousness can be practiced while sitting, standing, walking, running, singing, dancing or sweeping the floor. ~ Leland Lewis

Soar to the sky of emptiness,
Fly like a swan in flight.
This is the art of mindfulness;
The path is full of light. ~ Banani Ray