MEDITATION QUOTES
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Johannes Tauler
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.
Mariel Hemingway
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Richard Gere
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Swami Sivananda
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman
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.
Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Mike Love
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
Owen Feltham
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action the soul of meditation and honor the reward of action.
Francis Quarles
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Mark Tobey
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
Milarepa
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin
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.
Gillian Anderson
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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.
Judy Collins
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.
Peter Wright
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
Ziggy Marley
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
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
The flowering of love is meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
My workout is my meditation.
Kyle MacLachlan
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
Karl Jaspers
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.
Harrison Ford
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
Mike Love
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
Prem Rawat
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eknath Easwaran
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Raul Julia
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Sting
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
Swami Sivananda
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