Meditating Quotes:

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

- Allan Lokos

topic: Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Meditating

When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

- Choa Kok Sui

topic: Expectations, Meditation, Meditating

I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: People, Meditating

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Moments, Meditating, Know How

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Years, And Off, Meditating

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

- Voltaire

topic: Yoga, Thinking, Knowing, Objectification, Meditation Life

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

- Confucius

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Men, Good Thoughts, Meditation Life

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

- James Allen

source: James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yoga, Self, Meditation, Inspirational Meditation, Meditating

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

- Judy Collins

topic: Depression, Exercise, Years, Meditating

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

- Geoffrey Fisher

source: 1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

topic: Punishment, Long, Murder, Distressing, Capital Punishment

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Mean, Meditation, Spirituality, Means To An End, Meditation Life

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

- Sogyal Rinpoche

topic: Home, Practice, Meditation, Meditating

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

- Sivananda

topic: Buddhist, Practice, Meditation, Finitude, Meditating

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

- Sivananda

topic: Pain, Meditation, Joy, Meditation And Yoga, Finitude

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

- Sivananda

topic: Meditation, Consciousness, Awareness, Objectification, Meditation Life

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

- Rajneesh

topic: Meditation, Eternity, Deathless, Meditation Mind, Penetration

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Lifelong, Meditation Life, Meditating

Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

- Amit Ray

topic: Reality, Meditation, Universe, Meditating, Yoga Meditation

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (2002). “Meditations”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

topic: Meditation, Ends, Where You Are, Meditating

I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peace.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Meditation, Meditating

The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Lying, Yoga, Meditation, If Then, Ego And Soul

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Restless Mind, Doubt Me, Meditating

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Meditation, Missing, Meditation Mindfulness, Meditating

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Natural Things, Spiritual Beauty

When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Real, Meditation, Mind, Deep Within, Deep Meditation

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Pain, Moving, Knowing, Meditation Mind, Where You Are Going

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

source: FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

topic: Journey, Giving, Meditation, Meditation Life, Inspirational Meditation

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Letting Go, Buddhist, Husband, Meditating

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

topic: Sea, Soul, Mind, Deep Within, Peace And Tranquility

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

- Martin Heidegger

topic: Self, Glimpse, World, Attentiveness, Meditating

Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Remember You, Spiritual Teachers, Meditating

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

- Allan Lokos

source: Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin

topic: Inspiration, Practice, Meditation, Meditating

If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological approach is, you should forget it - even if you are a sinner, you should think, "I am the son of a Great Father, I am the daughter of a Great Father." Thus you are meditating on the Great Father, and a day is sure to come when you will become one with your Great Father.

- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

topic: Daughter, Father, Son, Meditating

Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied. We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations. But by meditating-by not doing anything- all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Thinking, Snakes, Meditation, Fixation, Meditating

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

- Nirmala Srivastava

topic: Love, Wisdom, Yoga, Meditating, Collectivity

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

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Spiritual, Meditation, Essentials, Meditating

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Life And Death, Meditation, Meditating

The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.

- David Lynch

topic: People, Interesting, Months, Meditating

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Jobs, Yoga, Buddhism, Meditating

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

- Philip K. Dick

source: Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Mean, Doe, Meaning Life, Quasars

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

- Rick Wright

topic: Thinking, Play, Playing Music, Meditating

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

- John Burdett

source: "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Talking, Buddhist Monk, Meditating

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

- Simon Amstell

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Spiritual, Journey, Thinking, Egomania, Peaceful Life

We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.

- Hank Hanegraaff

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Thinking, Issues, Color, Memorizing, Mining

After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Meditating, Heart Chakra

Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Reality, Finding Yourself, Gains, Losing Power, Meditating

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Energy, Crowds, Gains, Meditating

The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Unlocking, Gaining Power, Firsts, Meditating

Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Letting Go, Moving, Eye, Meditating

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Philosophy, Practice, Meditation, Meditating

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Moving, Might, Creation, Meditating

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

- Tim Gunn

topic: Able, Cherish, Meditating

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

- Matthieu Ricard

topic: Order, World, Able, Another Way, Meditating