Meditation Quotes - Page 14

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

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

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

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.

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

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.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

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

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.

Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.