Meditation Quotes - Page 27

• My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

  India.Arie

  Crazy, Yoga, Feelings

  "India Arie Talks Vulnerability, Meditation And The Creative Process (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

  India.Arie

  Self, Style, Twenties

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.

  Deborah King

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.

  Valerie June

  Prayer, Able, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

  Pam Houston

  Walking Meditation, Sitting, Movement

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.

  Allison McAtee

  Anchors, Knowing, Space

  "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

  Regina Taylor

  Prayer, Pain, Exercise

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• I wake up early enough every morning to have some alone time. I have an app called Simply Being that's made for meditation. I do that for 5-10 minutes in the morning. Somehow, it helps make the chaos of life have some sort of definition. Exercise, too, keeps me able to deal with everything and not get too stressed.

  Kevin Griffin

  Morning, Exercise, Up Early

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you just sit and spend time with yourself - you were born as you, just you, and that's how you're gonna die. Why do we spend the time in between trying to not be ourselves? That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. Through all of it. It's like John Patrick Shanley said: "Where the terror is, you must go." Where the terror is, is where you must go.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Trying, Born, Said

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

  Brad Willis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

  Naturi Naughton

  Silence, Family And Friends, Tvs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

  Miranda Kerr

  Life Changing, Yoga, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Miranda Kerr Gets Her Shortest Haircut Ever". Interview with Alexandra Tunell, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2016.

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• I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.

  Surya Das

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

  Robert Thurman

  Long, Understanding, Important

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Moving, Buddhism

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• There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Three, Mantras

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• The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Other Worlds

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• Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Ideas

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• Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sound, Consciousness

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• Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Consciousness

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• Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Seven, Intensity

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• A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Mind

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• At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Effort

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

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• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Lying, Buddhism

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• Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Judging

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