Meditation Quotes - Page 12

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

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

The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

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

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.

The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.