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Quotes About Meditation

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
~ Natalie Merchant
Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
~ Nhat Hanh
With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.
~ Nhat Hanh
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?
~ Nhat Hanh
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
~ Nhat Hanh
Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.
~ Nhat Hanh
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
~ Nick Cave
Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
~ P. D. James
If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.
~ Paulo Coelho
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.
~ Peace Pilgrim
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
~ Pema Chodron
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
~ Philip James Bailey
Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.
~ Philip Yancey
Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.
~ Queen Latifah
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.
~ Radhanath Swami
The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
~ Radhanath Swami
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
~ Radhanath Swami
My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.
~ Rajneesh