If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
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.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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.
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
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