Meditation Practice Quotes - Page 2

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

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.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

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.

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

I have done a fair bit of meditation practice, but I think through climbing it's definitely an easier way for me to tap into that mental state of being present and in the moment, very in tune with your body. But not in an intellectual way. Just really responding to the moment, where you don't have time to think.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.