Quotes about meditation
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 mind moments
In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind. Richard Davidson
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 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 finding-strength daring
Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength. Uma Thurman
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-practice restless-mind anxiety
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. Saint Francis de Sales
meditation december life-experience
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. Mike Love
meditation-practice meditation sides
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side. Henepola Gunaratana
meditation soil pushing
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. Jon Kabat-Zinn
meditation mind awareness
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
meditation endeavor humans
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
meditation feelings way
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
meditation special needs
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.
meditation
Meditation is not about doing something Joko Beck
meditation action
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society. Nhat Hanh
meditation trying our-society
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
meditation feelings mind
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
meditation preparation
Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.
meditation tools elements
Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.
meditation society acting
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.
meditation-practice silence understanding
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
meditation secret relaxation
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
meditation-practice anchors walking-meditation
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
meditation doing-nothing
I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time. Mike Oldfield
meditation waiting information
I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go. Kiki Smith
meditation mind vision
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind. Joseph Smith, Jr.
meditation soul excellence
Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within. Ken Wilber
meditation advice needs
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
meditation-practice ledges waterfalls
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. Mary Pipher
meditation important attention
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. Martin Chemnitz
meditation helping dalai
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong. Pico Iyer
meditation way more-time
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. Shunryu Suzuki