Quotes About Meditation

This is what we're doing by learning to peacefully abide in sitting meditation: creating the space for our garden to grow. Then we can cultivate qualities that will allow us to live our lives in full bloom.

Tilling the ground of our own minds through meditation is how we begin to create a community garden. In doing so we are helping to create a new culture, a culture that can thrive in the modern world and can at the same time support our human journey in an uplifted and joyous way. Such a culture is called enlightened society. Enlightened society is where the flower and the rock will meet.

Life is breath. Breath is life.

In meditation, placing our attention on the breathing takes the mind from daydreaming, worrying, thinking, and fantasizing. It gives our mind something healthy to do.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

Throughout life it is inevitable that we will experience both pain and pleasure. Learning how to handle them leads to harmony and happiness. In meditation, if we are unable to handle pain or boredom, then that pain or boredom becomes our master. Then we spend our entire life trying to avoid being bored or feeling pain. However if we can handle our mind, then we know that we can handle boredom and pain.

There is a direct correlation between physical exertion and mental relief.

We already have what we need—the opportunity to weave the tapestry of happiness every day with the needle and thread of our own mind.

Meditation stabilizes us in our inherent power as humans. It introduces the possibility of living our lives in a continually conscious, confident, and balanced state of mind.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.' It is one of the most consoling things anybody has ever said to me.

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Taking time away to really seek God and to remember what He has done always shows us a bigger picture of Him.

Qué ocurriría si nos quedáramos aquí quietos sin movernos, sin hacer nada? ¿Acaso el tiempo se olvidaría de nosotros, pasaría de largo? Que bajen el telón. Que salgan los créditos. Fin.

It turned out that experienced meditators activated the parts of the brain that suppress interruptions and they were able to completely block out the beeps. They protected their own state of fascination.

The mind is powerful. Left to its own devices, it can be a huge source of distraction, pulling you away from being present and taking you down the mental corridors of your thoughts.

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Vigilando, laborando y meditando todas las cosas prosperan

I go out alone to visit a man alone in this autumn dusk

This cold winter night, that old wooden-head buddha would make a nice fire

Autumn approaches and the heart begins to dream. — Bash?, The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bash?, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets (Shambhala, November 14, 2006)

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn...