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Quotes About Meditation

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing
~ Shenhui
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
~ Mencius
Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
~ Michael Douglas
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)
~ Swami Satchidananda
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
~ Brian Weiss
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
~ Ramakrishna
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
~ Bodhidharma
How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.
~ Rajneesh
Stillness is your essential nature.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.
~ Lauren Hutton
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
~ Plato
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
~ Irving Stone
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
~ Dalai Lama
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
~ Marcus Aurelius
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.
~ Maya Tiwari
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
~ Richard Helms
By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings