Best 3197 quotes in «meditation quotes» category

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

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.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

Without quietude you cannot enjoy the cool vibrations of the Divine.

With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing. Go on nourishing it, go on caring for it, go on watering it, strengthen it in every possible way - and one day it is going to blossom. That day will be the greatest day of your life.

With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.

Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.

You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

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?

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.