Samyama Meditation Quotes

Whatever you do, put your inner work first. ~ Swami Chetanananda

If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away. ~ Cuthbert

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless ~ Erin Fall Haskell

You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life. ~ Ilchi Lee

Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity. ~ Frederick Lenz

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life. ~ Brendon Burchard

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations. ~ Mary Ellen Flora

I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds. ~ Anderson Cooper

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. ~ Frederick Lenz

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Several performers have told me that they do the following brief lovingkindness meditation if they have stage fright: Standing in front of an audience, before they start acting, playing music, or reciting a poem, they send out wishes for the well-being of everyone in the room. 'When I do that,' one singer told me, 'I no longer have a sense of the audience as a group of hostile people out there waiting to judge me. I feel, okay, here we all are together. ~ Sharon Salzberg

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. ~ Sri Aurobindo

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone. ~ Sharon Salzberg

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation. ~ Marianne Williamson

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that? ~ Beth Johnson

If believed that life is a hologram; find the awe in its design.
If believed that life is strange; find the awe in its oddity.
If believed that life is fun; find the awe in its joys.
If believed that life is hard; find the awe in its successes.
If believed that life is beautiful; find the awe in its perfection.
Life is always about finding the awe, for that gives one power to create a wonderful life. ~ Gillian Duce

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow. ~ John Calvin

I said to my soul
be still
and
wait
so the darkness
shall be the
light
and the stillness
the
dancing. ~ T. S. Eliot

Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality. ~ Sri Chinmoy

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

I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things. ~ Robert Glasper

I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time. ~ Alysia Reiner

One might think that those who feast most often on communion with God are least hungry. They turn often from the innocent pleasures of the world to linger more directly in the presence of God through the revelation of his Word. And there they eat the Bread of Heaven and drink the Living Water by meditation and faith. But, paradoxically, it is not so that they are the least hungry saints. The opposite is the case. The strongest, most mature Christians I have ever met are the hungriest for God. It might seem that those who eat most would be least hungry. But that's not the way it works with an inexhaustible fountain, and an infinite feast, and a glorious Lord. When you take your stand on the finished work of God in Christ, and begin to drink at the River of Life and eat the Bread of Heaven, and know that you have found the end of all your longings, ~ John Piper

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

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation. ~ Rajneesh

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day. ~ Bryant McGill

Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating ~ Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness. ~ Pema Chodron

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. ~ Karl Jaspers