Quotes About Meditation

Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thought. With our thoughts we make the world. —The Dhammapada

Go to your heart. Listen. There is the wisdom.

I breathe in Your love, Lord, and I breathe out all negativity and unbelief.

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Meditation is an activity of the mental consciousness. It involves one part of the mind observing, analyzing, and dealing with the rest of the mind.

Meditation should be a satisfying and productive experience, not a burden.

And working from the left to the right always, embrace the first petal of the holy rose,

if the scriptures don't sometimes pierce us like a sword, we're not paying close enough attention.

By simply relaxing, being quiet, breathing and having a heartfelt intention to help another being, you create a sacred space. In this space, all things are possible.

The most important component of the system of Reiki at any level is one's own daily personal practice, meditation and self-healing. This is the foundation from which all healing experiences with the animals will grow.

Every part of the system of Reiki is ultimately about meditation and compassion as keys to healing.

I've read all the books but One only remains sacred: this volume of wonders, open always before my eyes

Yoga teaches more than postures; it teaches you how to trust.

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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lin Yutang

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret. - Earl Nightingale

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Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

To cast off the delusive way of ordinary consciousness while sitting on a cushion in a quiet room is only the beginning. The student must learn to live in the ordinary world, while yet retaining the quality of his experience of absolute samadhi.

One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is in reality a gain rather than a loss. Any experience is to be regarded as a part of one's assets.