Meditation Quotes - Page 47

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can be done at any time, anywhere, without observing any rule regarding the purity of mind and body. Japa can be done while engaged in any task.

When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.

Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.

Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.