The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
What you think you become.
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.
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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.
Meditation is listening to the divine within
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
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