Meditation Quotes:

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

topic: Meditation, Mind, Should, Carried Away, Dictation

At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there, deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

- Aaron Hoopes

topic: Spiritual, Essence, Meditation, Patiently Waiting

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

- Adi Shankara

topic: Wise, Self, Meditation, Practise, Wise Person

Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.

- Adi Shankara

topic: Strong, Self, Meditation, Realised

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

- Adi Shankara

topic: Heart, Meditation, Mind

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

- Adyashanti

topic: Letting Go, Real, Meditation

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

topic: Silence, Meditation, Different, Meditation Mind, Radiant

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

- Adyashanti

topic: Letting Go, Meditation

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

- Adyashanti

topic: Prayer, Goal, Meditation, Silent Prayer

Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

- Adyashanti

topic: Attitude, Meditation, Tunes

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

- Ajahn Amaro

topic: Lying, Meditation, Breathe

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

- Ajahn Brahm

topic: Powerful, Meditation, Calm

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Meditation, Sitting, None Of Your Business, Thai

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Effort, Meditation, Overcoming

When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Thinking, Meditation, Suffering

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Giving, Meditation, Battle

If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Meditation, Mind, Looks

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Meditation, Understanding, Listening, Defilement

You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Practice, Breathing, Meditation

If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Numbers, Meditation

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Jobs, Doors, Meditation, Visits You

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

- Ajahn Chah

topic: Meditation, Mind, Woods

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

- Ajahn Sumedho

topic: Letting Go, Meditation, Resolution

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

- Alan Watts

topic: Meditation, Humans

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

- Alan Watts

topic: Life, Discovery, Meditation, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Life

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

- Alan Watts

topic: Inspiration, Practice, Meditation, Inspirational Meditation, Boiler Room

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

- Alan Watts

topic: Eye, Phones, Meditation, Biologist, Matured

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Party, Meditation, Looks

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

- Albert Hofmann

topic: Reality, Discovery, Meditation, Scientific Discovery, Deeper Meaning

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Meditation, Grace, Soul, Aperture

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Artist, Thinking, Meditation

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

- Amedeo Modigliani

topic: Rome, Meditation, Harmony

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

- Amit Ray

topic: Long, Meditation, Doe, Money Isn't Everything, Positive Vibes

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

- Amit Ray

source: Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

topic: Meditation, Anxiety, Live In The Moment, Meditation Life, Meditation Mind

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

- Amit Ray

topic: Flower, Psychics, Meditation, Chanting, Cosmic Rays

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

- Amit Ray

topic: Self, Meditation, Firsts, Self Observation

Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.

- Amit Ray

topic: Journey, Compassion, Meditation, Peace Harmony, Collective Consciousness

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

- Amit Ray

topic: Meditation, Divinity, Blossoming, Meditation Life, Inspirational Yoga

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

- Amit Ray

topic: Meditation, Inner Beauty, Realizing, Strength And Beauty

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 inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.

- Amit Ray

topic: Song, Self, Meditation, Inner Self

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

- Amit Ray

topic: Meditation, Soul, Suffering, Disconnection

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

- Amit Ray

topic: Lying, Meditation, Doe

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

- Amit Ray

topic: Perfect, Effort, Meditation

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

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

- Amit Ray

topic: Creative, Meditation, Ongoing, Vipassana

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

- Amit Ray

topic: Meditation, World, Birth

If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.

- Anderson Cooper

topic: Ocean, Water, Meditation

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

topic: Phones, Two, Meditation

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

- Andrew Weil

topic: Exercise, Meditation, World

Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

- Andy Puddicombe

topic: Meditation, Uncertainty

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

- Andy Puddicombe

topic: God, People, Meditation, Stepping Back

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.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Spiritual, Meditation, Drug, Altered States, Altered States Of Consciousness

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Meditation, Path, Natural

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

- Anne Stevenson

topic: Writing, Meditation, Used

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

- Ariana Grande

topic: Meditation, Schedules, Shooting, Juggling

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Meditation, Feelings, Stopping

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

- Armando Iannucci

topic: Journey, Meditation, Listening

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

- Atisa

source: "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

topic: Letting Go, Meditation, Mind, Spiritual Buddhist, Greatest Achievement

the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

- Ayya Khema

topic: Hatred, Meditation, Easier

Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

- B. Alan Wallace

source: B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Practice, Meditation, Healthy, Healthy Diet

Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

- Bankei Yotaku

topic: Hate, Practice, Meditation, Involving, Zen Buddhism

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it. Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort, rest naturally as the Unborn Mind. Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha.

- Bankei Yotaku

topic: Effort, Meditation, Mind, Illuminating

There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.

- Benjamin Creme

topic: Inspiration, Illumination, Meditation

Meditation is culture.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Meditation, Culture

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Stress, Meditation, Levels, Stress Levels, Immune System

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Meditation, Half, Affair

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

- Bill Phillips

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Matter, Positive Change, Power To Change

When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.

- Bill Porter

topic: Confused, Mean, Meditation

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

- Bill W.

topic: Prayer, Meditation, Rewards, Meditation And Prayer

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

- Billy Joel

topic: Religious, Believe, Meditation

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

- Bo Lozoff

topic: Honesty, Reality, Meditation

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

- Bodhidharma

topic: People, Meditation, Understanding, Clear Minds

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

- Bodhidharma

topic: Meditation, Fortune, Persons

Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Reality, Attachment, Meditation

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Meditation, Enemy, Fruit

When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not "seizing" it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.

- Bokar Rinpoche

topic: Ocean, Meditation, Mind

Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

- Bonaventure

topic: Meditation, Divine, Creatures

Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.

- Brad Alan Lewis

topic: Numbers, Meditation, Brain

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

- Brad Warner

topic: Expression, Meditation, Encounters

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

- Brandi Carlile

source: "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

topic: Meditation, Singing, Form

Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.

- Brandon Bays

topic: Meditation, Spirituality, Moments

* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)

- Brennan Manning

topic: Jesus, Meditation, Desire, God Is With You

It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.

- Bryan Kest

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Looks

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

- Bryan Kest

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Doe

Welcome to your body.

- Bryan Kest

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Body

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

- Cara Delevingne

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Brain

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Past, Years, Meditation

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

- Carl Jung

topic: Fate, Meditation, Consciousness

We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.

- Carlo Borromeo

topic: Prayer, Meditation, Overcoming

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Meditation, Bird, Connections, Daily Meditation, Affirming

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

- Catherine of Genoa

topic: Peace, Moving, Meditation

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

- Charles F. Haanel

topic: Silence, 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.

- Ching Hai

topic: Spiritual, Inspiration, Meditation, Spiritual Inspiration

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Attitude, Practice, Meditation

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

- Christmas Humphreys

source: Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.179, Routledge

topic: Meditation, Use, Creation

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

- Christopher McDougall

source: Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.213, Profile Books

topic: Running, Meditation, Answers, Born To Run

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

- Christy Turlington

topic: Meditation, Lotuses, Way

Movement for me is meditation.

- Conor McGregor

topic: Mma, Meditation, Movement

The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda.

- Cyndi Lee

topic: Yoga, Profound, Meditation

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

- Cyndi Lee

source: Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Yoga, Breathing, Meditation

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

- Cyndi Lee

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Together

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

- Dalai Lama

topic: Clever, Years, Meditation, Mother And Son

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Meditation, Mind, Delight

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Wisdom, Prayer, Meditation, Meditation And Prayer

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Prayer, Meditation, Awareness, Meditation And Prayer, Introspection

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Practice, Effort, Meditation

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

- Dalai Lama

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Emotional, Hands, Meditation, Inner Peace And Happiness, Meditation Mind

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Sadness, Meditation, Wish

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Meditation, World, Want

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Meditation, Inner Peace, Mind

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

- Dan Millman

topic: Meditation, Substance, Realizing

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Emotional, Meditation, Impulse, Meditation And Yoga, Meditation Mindfulness

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

- Darren Main

source: Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.14, BookBaby

topic: Time, Focus, Meditation

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

- David A. Bader

topic: Meditation, Complicated, Be Here Now

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

- David Fontana

topic: Spiritual, Meditation, Growth

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

- David Fontana

topic: Illumination, Meditation, Mind, Walking Meditation

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

- David Lynch

topic: Creativity, Meditation, Energy, Transcendental Meditation

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

- David Lynch

topic: Meditation, Technique, Stories, Transcendental Meditation

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

- David Lynch

topic: Selfish, Meditation, World

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what walk of life. If you're a human being, it will work for you. And you will be very glad you found this technique and took advantage of it.

- David Lynch

topic: Color, Meditation, Technique, Transcendental Meditation

All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.

- David Lynch

topic: Meditation, Get Better, Technique, Life Gets Better, Transcendental Meditation

I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

- David Lynch

topic: Thinking, Meditation, World

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

- David Lynch

topic: Meditation, Mind, Technique, Transcendental Meditation, Happiness Love

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

- David Lynch

topic: Meditation

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

- David Lynch

topic: Keys, Practice, Meditation, Levels Of Life, Transcendental Meditation

Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.

- David Lynch

topic: Sleep, Meditation, Important, Physiology, Enough Sleep

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

- David Lynch

topic: Teacher, Hero, Meditation

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

- David Lynch

topic: Meditation, Answers, Be True To Yourself, Transcendental Meditation

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

- David Richo

topic: Spiritual, Practice, Meditation, Daily Spiritual

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

- David Simon

topic: Light, Meditation, Perception

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation,

- David Suchet

topic: Growing Up, Meditation, Typical

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

- Deborah King

topic: Meditation, Energy, Giants, Brooms

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

- Dee Hock

topic: Creativity, Meditation, Mind, Inspiration And Creativity, Computer Language

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Meditation, Mind, Body

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Thinking, People, Meditation

Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Stress, Meditation, Anxiety, Clear Minds, Stress And Anxiety

Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Children, Simple, Meditation

Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Creativity, Meditation, Soul, Synchronicity, Power Of Intention

The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Thinking, Fog, Meditation

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Meditation, Coherence, Fields, Nervous System

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Meditation, Helping, Accomplish

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

- Dennis Quaid

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Meditation

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

- Dharma Mittra

topic: Yoga, Worry, Meditation

The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.

- Dharma Mittra

topic: Self, Talking, Meditation, No Doubt

Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.

- Dharma Mittra

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Chance

Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.

- Diane Dreher

source: Diane Dreher (2000). “The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace”, Plume

topic: Meditation, Energy, Harmony

In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

- Donna Farhi

topic: Yoga, Practice, Meditation

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

- Donna Karan

topic: Yoga, Practice, Meditation

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

- Donna Reed

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Meditation, Use

Regardless of the situation at hand, the answer is always found through your inner peace.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Hands, Meditation, Inner Peace

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

- Dorianne Laux

topic: Distance, Eye, Meditation, Odes, Elegy

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

- Douglas Preston

source: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

topic: Heart, Meditation, Mind

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.

- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

topic: Ocean, Meditation, Depth

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

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Letting Go, Goal, 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?"

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Meditation, Mind, Sitting

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Keys, Meditation, Connectedness

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Spiritual, Cat, Meditation, Zen Master, Zen Proverb

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: People, Meditation, Want, Escapism, Ultimate Freedom

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Meditation, Noise, Offers

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Self, Names, Meditation, Stillness Speaks, Lost Yourself

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Thinking, Meditation, Different, States Of Consciousness

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Acceptance, Meditation, Judgement, Sufferers, Resisting

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Thinking, Essence, Meditation

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Meditation, Mind, Earth, Emanate

Stillness is your essential nature.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Meditation, Essentials, Stillness

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

- Ed Begley, Jr.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Car, Meditation

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Ideas, Meditation, Mind

Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees; that the life of each is a manifesting, is a song of glory to its Maker. And do thou likewise!

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Song, Flower, Meditation

What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Spiritual, Meditation, Body, Musings

Meditation is listening to the divine within

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Meditation, Listening, Divine

For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word home! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm-O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Home, Self, Meditation, Home Home, Implied

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Writing, Ambition, Meditation, Huts

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Perfect, Meditation, Joy, Perfect Peace, Peace And Joy

All souls can find the truth within.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Meditation, Soul

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Yoga, Giving, Meditation, Daily Meditation, One Thing At A Time

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

- Eknath Easwaran

source: Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.38, Nilgiri Press

topic: Exercise, Meditation, Mind

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Choices, Meditation, Emotion

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Meditation, Mind, Hot, Hot Tub

Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Essence, Focus, 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.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Thinking, Meditation, Mindfulness

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Meditation, Principles

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Prayer, Talking, Meditation

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Art, Practice, Meditation, Art Of Living

I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Crazy, Meditation, Listening, Soulful, Monkey Mind

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Patience, Keys, Meditation

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Crazy, Meditation, Feel Good

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

- Elsa Barker

source: Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yield, Meditation, Soul

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

- Emile Durkheim

topic: Passion, Men, Meditation, Insensible

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

- Emile Durkheim

topic: Men, Meditation, He Man

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

- Emmet Fox

source: Emmet Fox (2010). “Find and Use Your Inner Power”, p.20, Harper Collins

topic: Prayer, Godly, Meditation

Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur.

- Eric Swanson

topic: Thinking, Meditation, Mind

Experience yourself in silence.

- Erich Schiffmann

topic: Silence, Meditation, Experience Yourself

Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.

- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

topic: Reflection, Men, Meditation, Nomad, Escapists

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

- Erin Gray

source: "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

topic: Giving Up, Meditation, Answers

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

- Eva Mendes

topic: Meditation, Serenity, Mind

It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

- Eva Mendes

topic: Meditation, Rewards, Reap, Deep Meditation

meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Thinking, House, Meditation

Playing Tetris for 15 minutes is like meditation.

- Ezra Koenig

topic: Meditation, Tetris, Minutes