Quotes About Meditation

To realize that boredom does not come from the object of our attention but rather from the quality of our attention is truly a transforming insight.

A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct.

This is not a breathing exercise; it is an exercise in awareness.

Better than one hundred years lived without seeing the arising and passing of things / Is one day lived seeing their arising and passing."2 What does this say about what we value and work for in our lives, and about the liberating effect of seeing directly, in the moment, the truth of change?

Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life. Happiness is available. Please help yourselves to it.

meditate upon thoughts is simply to be aware, as thoughts arise, that the mind is thinking, without getting involved in the content: not going off on a train of association, not analyzing the thought and why it came, but merely to be aware that at the particular moment "thinking" is happening

In meditation, we free ourselves from attachment to that conceptualization and experience the fundamental unity of the elements which comprise our being.

From the beginning this "self" does not exist, yet because we're so firmly attached to the idea of it, we spend much of our lives defending or enlarging or satisfying this imaginary self. Meditation helps us to see its conceptual nature, to see that in reality it does not exist, that it is simply an idea, an extraneous projection onto what's happening in the moment.

He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.

You must be like Joseph and become a practical dreamer. Decide to make your dreams come true. Withdraw, and take away your attention now from appearances of things and from sense evidence. Even though your senses deny what you pray for, affirm that it is true in your heart. Bring your mind back from its wandering after the false Gods of fear and doubt, to rest in the Omnipotence of the Spiritual Power within you. in the silence and quietude of your own mind, dwell on the fact that there is

The American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air when you were immersed in the water, you will receive it.

To concentrate is to come back to the center and contemplate the Infinite Power within you that lies stretched in smiling repose.

To concentrate properly, you still the wheels of your mind and enter into a quiet, relaxed mental state. When you concentrate, you gather your thoughts together; and you focus all your attention on your ideal, aim, or objective. You are now at a focal or central point, where

The first step in conveying your clarified desire, idea, or image to the deeper mind is to relax, immobilize the attention, and get still and quiet.

it. Commit yourself wholeheartedly to it. Praise it; give your attention, love, and devotion to your ideal; and as you continue to do so, all the fearful thoughts will make obeisance to your exalted state of mind--that is, they will lose their power and disappear from the mind.

When you keep your imagination busy with noble, Godlike concepts and ideas, you will find that it is the most effective of all faculties in your ongoing spiritual quest.

the sleepy, drowsy state of the conscious mind, resistance is reduced to a minimum; that's why, results follow.

Háblale a tu mente subconsciente. Dile que se llene de paz, armonía y orden divino.

I want to stress this important fact: You will always receive guidance in respect to the subject in which you think about the most.

Watch your inner talking, and let it agree with your aim.

A man is what he thinks all day long.

Varias veces al día me aseguro de que estoy completamente relajado mental y físicamente. Relajo mi cuerpo hablándole del modo siguiente: 'Mis pies están relajados, mis tobillos están relajados, mis piernas están relajadas, mis músculos abdominales están relajados, mi corazón y mis pulmones están relajados, mi cabeza está relajada, todo mi ser se halla completamente relajado'.

Cuando se despierte, cada mañana, deposite pensamientos de prosperidad, éxito, riqueza y paz. Concéntrese en estas ideas. Medite en ellas lo más frecuentemente posible. Estos pensamientos constructivos encontrarán su camino como depósitos en el banco de su mente subconsciente y originarán dividendos y prosperidad.