Meditation Quotes

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.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

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

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

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

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.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

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

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.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

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.

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.

Sleep is the best 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The flowering of love is meditation.