Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bodhidharma

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Brendon Burchard

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Eckhart Tolle

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Bellamy Young

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Ariana Grande

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Arianna Huffington

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

Daniel Goleman

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Charles Fillmore

Be still and turn within to the great source.

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

Deepak Chopra

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

William Shakespeare

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Dalai Lama

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Jack Kornfield

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

Jack Kornfield

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Jack Kornfield

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Jack Kornfield

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Jack Kornfield

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

J. D. Salinger

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

Jack Kerouac

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

Isaac Newton

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Sinclair Lewis

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.