Meditation Mind Quotes

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

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.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Life is available only in the present moment.

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.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

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.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

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

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.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope 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.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

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

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.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

What you think you become.

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.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

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

The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

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.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.