Meditation Quotes - Page 3

• Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Mirrors, Practice

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.73, Workman Publishing

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• Meditation is waiting on God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Waiting, Waiting On God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Practice, Mind, Tools

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Honor, Rewards

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• Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Way, Cleansing

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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Being Yourself, Knowing, Path

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

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• In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Choices, Understanding, Becoming

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Worry, Levels

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• Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

  Rama Swami

  Art, Men, Want

  Swami Rama (1977). “Freedom from the Bondage of Karma”, p.73, Himalayan Institute Press

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• When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Clever, Men

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• Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Finding Yourself, Tunes

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• Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Tunes, Way

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• Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Suffering, Shadow

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• 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

  Real, Mind, Calm

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• Music without words means
  leaving behind the mind.
  And leaving behind the mind
  is meditation.
  Meditation returns you
  to the source.
  And the source of all is sound.

  Kabir

  Music, Mean, Leaving

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• Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Single Mom, Mean

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• Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Serenity, Trying

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• 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

  Exercise, Mind, Self Awareness

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

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• Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Ideas, Silence

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• It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

  Sai Baba

  Happiness, Voice, Silence

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• 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

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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• You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Art, World

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• A star is shining within us and that is our Spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Stars

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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Mind, Spirit

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