Meditation Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

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.

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.

Sleep is the best meditation.

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