Best 3197 quotes in «meditation quotes» category

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Conquer a liar with truth.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.

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

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being. You have to become that.

Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.

Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Do not get up immediately at the end of the archana. The beloved deity should be brought from the seat in front of us back into our hearts and re-installed there. Seeing the form of the deity seated in the heart, meditate for a little longer. If it is possible, it is good to sing 2 or 3 kirtans. After taking an injection, a patient is asked to rest for a few minutes to let the medicine spread throughout the body. Similarly, to obtain the full benefit of the mantras, we should keep the mind calm for a while after worship.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.

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

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself.

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

Don't preach about meditation.

Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

Each season has its own beauty. To practice meditation is to open the mind so that all of them may be enjoyed. When each season comes we should enjoy it; & when it goes, we should let it go and open our mind to the next season.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.