Quotes about meditation
meditation contentment doing-you
If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment. Rajneesh
meditation desire contentment
As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.
meditation force situation
You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.
meditation taught caught
Meditation cannot be taught, it can only be caught. I am meditation. If you are available you can catch it.
meditation ego mind
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.
meditation conscious unconscious
In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever.
meditation mind desire
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all. A state of no-mind is meditation. When you can look without any mind interfering, distorting, interpreting, then you see the truth. The truth is already all around; just you have to put your mind aside.
meditation joy silence
To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.
meditation choices mind
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don't choose! That's why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation.
meditation way done
Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
meditation action
Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.
meditation mind moments
Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.
meditation pieces friction
Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction. Swami Vivekananda
meditation-practice restless-mind anxiety
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. Saint Francis de Sales
meditation each-day half
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
meditation finding-strength daring
Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength. Uma Thurman
meditation principles transcendental
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. Russell Brand
meditation labels hopeless
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively. Robert Anton Wilson
meditation quality mindfulness
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not. Richard Gere
meditation forgiving want
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. Richard Rohr
meditation calm kind
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life. Roseanne Barr
meditation relaxation causes
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.
meditation principles action
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. William Pitt
meditation trying attention
We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up. William Martin
meditation-and-yoga long calming
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. Walter Bagehot
meditation mind worship
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness. Ramakrishna
meditation obstacles impediments
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. Ramana Maharshi
meditation helping method
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
meditation-practice self-realization method
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
meditation-practice mind brake
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
meditation distraction
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
meditation vision inward
Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.
meditation way more-time
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. Shunryu Suzuki