Quotes About Meditation

Self-awareness is the opposite of self-consciousness. When you are self-aware, you are fully within yourself, not outside yourself looking in. You are aware of what you are doing without ego or pride.

When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together.

You watch yourself from the inside. It is a full silence. Maintain a detached attitude toward the body and, at the same time, do not neglect any part of the body or show haste but remain alert while doing the asana.

Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

Q: How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.

Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

Work honestly, meditate daily, meet people without fear, and play.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.

For when a man placeth his thoughts without himself, he goeth not his own way.

A prolonged meditation on unseen realities is sufficiently difficult, and seems scarcely the occupation for which common human nature was intended.

Much musing, little studying,—fair scholarship, an atmosphere of the classics, curious fancies, much perusing of pamphlets, light thoughts on heavy folios —these make the meditative poet, but not the technical and patient-headed scholar.

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

I read the Bible every day.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.