Meditation Quotes - Page 11

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here.

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

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.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Yoga is not just about living better. It is about exploring the very source of life.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.