Meditation Practice Quotes - Page 2

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

  Sivananda

  Buddhist, Practice, Meditation

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Luxury, Silence

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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

  Sivananda

  Pain, Yoga, Joy

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

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Inspiration, Mother And Son

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• 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

  Lying, Inspiration, Breathe

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Restless Mind, Anxiety

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

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Divinity, Blossoming

  "Meditation: Insights and Inspiration". Book by Amit Ray, July 4, 2010.

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

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Knowing

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• With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

  Mary Pipher

  Ledges, Waterfalls, Found

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World”, p.121, Penguin

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Walking Meditation, Sky

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Stress, Meditation And Yoga

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• At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

  Ringo Starr

  Meditation And Yoga, The End Of The Day, Mountain

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

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Reality, Yoga Meditation

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.37, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Taken, Thinking

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

  Swami Muktananda

  Inspiration, Goal, Mind

  Swami Muktananda (1999). “Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You”, Siddha Yoga Publications

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• Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

  Darren Hardy

  Yoga, Giving, Growth

  "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

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• I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

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• Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

  Alan Cohen

  God, Yoga, Space

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• To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Quiet, Yoga Meditation

  "Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself".

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

  Amit Ray

  Stress, Inspiration, Breathing

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

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• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Trying, Systematic

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga, Use

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 13, 2013

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