Meditation Quotes - Page 46

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

One key point is that different people may benefit from different types of meditation, as well as other interventions. This question of optimal matching between the form of practice and the type of person has not received much scientific attention.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.

Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness.

Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.