Meditation Quotes - Page 50

Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.

Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Sit quietly and open up to spirit.

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy - it is really a wound, very painful.

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.