Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madame de Stael

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Eckhart Tolle

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Eckhart Tolle

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

Eckhart Tolle

Stillness is your essential nature.

Eckhart Tolle

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

John Lennon

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

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.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Benjamin Disraeli

Meditation is culture.

Ariana Grande

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

Deepak Chopra

Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

Deepak Chopra

The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

Dan Harris

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Dan Harris

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Aldous Huxley

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

Donna Karan

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

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.

Dalai Lama

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Dalai Lama

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

Deepak Chopra

The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

Andrew Weil

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

Christy Turlington

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

David Lynch

I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.

David Lynch

All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.

David Lynch

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

David Lynch

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

David Lynch

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Confucius

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

Anne Lamott

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

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.