Quotes About Meditation

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is 'tested' samadhi.

Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.

Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.

True oneness is found in quiet meditation with nature.

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.