Meditation Quotes

* Recognize that God is with you.* Acknowledge God knows what He's doing.* Search for God's will: th...

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he mad...

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays h...

Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your conn...

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, tr...

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activ...

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is alr...

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicin...

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances...

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddh...

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

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

Next time you say "I have nothing incommon with this person," remember that you have a great deal in...

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possi...

The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secur...

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dict...

Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely o...

Meditation is the basis of a life of splendid health, untiring energy, unfailing love, and abiding w...

Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something d...

The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; t...

The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his...

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and cl...

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you...

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the wither...

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkn...

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externaliz...

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cult...

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbrok...

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will f...

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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...