Meditation Quotes - Page 16

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

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.

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind.

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.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

You might wish to try Kali's mantra. Kali is another celestial being. She offers very fast spiritual progress through intensity. Her mantra is "Kring!" When you chant Kring, chant it very intensely and sharply. Only chant Kring when you are in a high meditation.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.