Meditation Quotes

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

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

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.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

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

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

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