Meditation Quotes - Page 18

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

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.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

I would recommend meditating. I think that's the single most important thing that I do. More than stretching, more than the way I eat, there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Meditation changes your character.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind, whereby it recalls a known truth, as some kinds of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon, until all the nutritious parts are extracted, and fitted for the purposes of life.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

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

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.