Daily Meditation Quotes

I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.

As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

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

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

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

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

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

I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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

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.

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

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

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

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.