Meditation Quotes - Page 34

• For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

  Jess Row

  Buddhism, Practice, Insight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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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• 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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• Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.

  Renee Marino

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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 need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga helps me to some degree, but I haven't been able to figure out meditation yet. I have a feeling it would be very good for me, but unfortunately, I'm still holding it all in until I explode part of my life.

  Tricia Helfer

  Stress, Yoga, Feelings

  "Actress/Producer Tricia Helfer: On Yoga and Being a Stress Cadet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, People, Littles

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Emotional, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Connections, Attention

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

  Allan Lokos

  Inspiration, Reality, Practice

  Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.100, Penguin

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Michigan, Tuning, Festivals

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress.

  Karan Bajaj

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

  MC Yogi

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Symphony, Trying, Growing

  "Tohoru Masamune. On pursuing dreams and embracing chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant for Origin Magazine: Issue 20, September 8, 2014.

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• I think it's worth trying to do something about obvious sources of stress in your life. But even more important is learning and practicing methods to neutralize the harmful effects of stress on the body and mind. There are many possibilities, anything from meditation and yoga to listening to relaxing music. My personal favorite is simple breathing techniques - they're very effective, take very little time, and they're free.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Yoga, Thinking

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In my case what happened is that within about two weeks of beginning meditation, the anger already started to go away. My wife came to me and said, "What's going on?" and I said, "What are you talking about?" To which she replied, "This anger, where did it go?" I didn't even realize that my anger had been going away.

  David Lynch

  Two, Talking, Wife

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

  Valentina Zelyaeva

  Morning, New York, Couple

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