Quotes About Meditation

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?