Meditation Quotes - Page 19

I have done a fair bit of meditation practice, but I think through climbing it's definitely an easier way for me to tap into that mental state of being present and in the moment, very in tune with your body. But not in an intellectual way. Just really responding to the moment, where you don't have time to think.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

When people say that meditation makes them calm, they are often referring to this stability of the mind. A stable mind creates the foundation for a happier and more contented person.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

Experience yourself in silence.