Quotes About Meditation

Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom. Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

Meditation...brings us to union with the true self, the one in ourself and in others. We develop deep devotion to this one when we realise that it is the one who is in all, loves us through all and loves all through us.

He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.

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If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

You are at your best, Ann, when you are alone with God. That's probably true of every Christian to one degree or another.

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 is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already thereóburied under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Don't let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

I want to know God's thoughts … the rest are details.

I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

Consciously put your attention in the heart and ask your heart what to do.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be. Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing from the activity of speech. It also means periodically withdrawing from such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a book. If you never give yourself the opportunity to experience silence, this creates turbulence in your internal dialogue.