Meditation Quotes - Page 6

• If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

  Amit Ray

  Stress, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

  Swami Paramananda

  Wings, Giving, Flight

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• Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Earth, Quench

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

  Lawrence LeShan

  Knowing, Lost

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• If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Reading, Doors

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhist, Unique, Technology

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• 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.

  Judy Collins

  Depression, Exercise, Years

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• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Way

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.54, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Way, Release

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

  Tara Brach

  Full Potential, Evolution, Strategy

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perfection, Joy, Want

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• Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

  Alan Watts

  Way, Shut Up, Feels

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• Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspiration, Live Life, Practice

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.9, Anchor

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• Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Solitude, Delight

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• I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Meditation Practice, Trying

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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

  Eknath Easwaran

  Yoga, Giving, Focus

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

  Rajneesh

  Feelings, Sooner Or Later, Known

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• Learn to live without self concern.
  For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious.
  Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,
  you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Ideas, Imagination

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