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Quotes About Meditation

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.
~ Frederick Lenz
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
~ Rajneesh
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.
~ Frederick Lenz
Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The goal of every yoga is to lead a guided life.
~ Irina Tweedie
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
~ Lauren Bacall
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
~ Helen Keller
At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.
~ James Cook
Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
~ William Wordsworth
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.
~ Zenkei Shibayama
Life is a state of consciousness.
~ Emmet Fox
When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.
~ John Ajvide Lindqvist
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
~ Socrates
Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
~ D.T. Suzuki
When our mind is calm, we're better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.
~ Dalai Lama
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.
~ Deepak Chopra