Quotes About Meditation

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

It is never too late in life to practice yoga

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.