Quotes About Meditation

Meditation can be intimidating. Sitting there doing nothing, just breathing, can be trickier than it sounds. It may feel strange, uncomfortable, or even put you to sleep.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

I have received a great deal of benefit from the simple yet difficult practice of learning to stop the internal voice in my head. I learned that the voice isn't me, and I don't need to keep rethinking events of the past nor overthink plans for the future. This skill has helped me both to focus and to pause before responding to unexpected events.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.

The attention is to be kept pure.

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.