Meditation Quotes - Page 40

• By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Integrity, Negative

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.67, Lulu.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.

  Aberjhani

  Creative Visualization, Imagination, May

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.1, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Ideas, Effort

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Apr 26, 2012

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the inner world. You remove all that clutter, all the rubbish you are full of. Meditation means emptying yourself of all that the society has put inside you so that you can have a clean, clear vision, so that you can have a mirror-like quality.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Dust

  5 Copy quote

• Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Exercise, Mind, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Motivation, Mindfulness, Watches

  12 Copy quote

• And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Celebrate, Enjoy

  6 Copy quote

• Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

  Ajahn Chah

  Mind, Woods, Sides

  9 Copy quote

• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Sleep, Meditation Practice, Breathing

  19 Copy quote

• One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Practice, Giving

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.15, Amber-Allen Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mind, Awareness, Embrace

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.74, Hachette UK

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Essence, Focus, Mind

  "Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

  Laozi

  Law, Heaven, Movement

  12 Copy quote

• One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Sleep, Half

  "Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen". Book by Rajneesh, 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

  Albert Hofmann

  Children, Believe, Practice

  Albert Hofmann (1983). “LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science”, J P Tarcher

  157 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

  Louise Talma

  Intellectual, Sound, Matter

  4 Copy quote

• I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

  Mike Oldfield

  Doing Nothing

  8 Copy quote

• First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Knowing, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping, Holy, Burn Out

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.36, editionNEXT.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

  Sarah MacLean

  Integrity, Inspiration, Journey

  8 Copy quote

• In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Cutting, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Mind, World

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Thinking, Moments

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4515, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Unification, Subjects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2579, Manonmani Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Growth, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1639, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source