Meditation Quotes

The flowering of love is meditation.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

My workout is my meditation.

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.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.