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Quotes About Meditation

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.
~ Joseph Murphy
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A mind too active is no mind at all.
~ Theodore Roethke
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
~ Eckhart Tolle
Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.
~ Rajneesh
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.
~ Frederick Lenz
I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.
~ Henry Eyring
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
~ Thich Thien-An
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
~ Laozi
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
~ Jack Kornfield
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.
~ K. Pattabhi Jois
By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
~ William Wordsworth
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
~ Voltaire
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
~ Sivananda
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
~ D.T. Suzuki
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
~ Ernest Wood
For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.
~ Alfred Ford
When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
~ Rajneesh
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You only grow when you are alone.
~ Paul Newman
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke