Meditation Quotes - Page 7

Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

My workout is my meditation.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it. Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort, rest naturally as the Unborn Mind. Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha.

The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.