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Quotes About Meditation

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
~ Abraham Kuyper
I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.
~ James Herriot
Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
~ Ahmad ibn Ajiba
In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
~ Anoushka Shankar
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
~ Antonio Porchia
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
~ Carl Jung
Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life
~ John McPhee
All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
~ Karlfried Graf Durckheim
Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.
~ David Frawley
The only prudence in life is concentration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
~ Sharon Gannon
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.
~ Todd Hido
I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
~ Jim Caviezel
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
~ Bodhidharma
If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
~ Aldous Huxley
...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.
~ Muriel Barbery
No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.
~ Rajneesh
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
He who thinks little errs much.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
~ Andre Maurois
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.
~ Anodea Judith