Meditation Quotes

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfo...

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue ti...

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, ...

If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what...

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong b...

Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, w...

Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you...

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, whe...

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for...

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal a...

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they ...

To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

Breath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long ph...

In each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, tea...

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they...

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend...

The Way to do is to be.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion fo...

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

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit t...

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precise...

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will...

Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate...

The Warrior of the Light meditates.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. I...

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the st...

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity...

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding havi...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive th...

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I ...

If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each ...

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through...

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, th...

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the still...

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve ...

One time Marian showed me some sand. When she gave it to me, she said, "These are very interesting s...

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will becom...

Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo t...

Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the sur...

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpress...

Beyond speech and mind,Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors...

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully ...

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinar...

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter wit...

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait ...

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisp...

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by o...

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a...

We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inali...

There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, th...

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see i...

Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and...

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagi...

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround ...

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking abo...

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only ...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our su...

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip...

The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to at...

Between the desolate earth and the colorless sky appeared an Image of the ungrateful world in which,...

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective ...

Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocki...

For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-chang...

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments...

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beau...

Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the wo...

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

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

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.