Quotes About Meditation

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

The basis for the practice of meditation is appreciation. Every breath we take is a gift, naturally pure and good. We appreciate every pebble in the riverbed, every apple on the tree. Ordinary activities are in themselves powerful and worth appreciating.

Train in the three difficulties.

I would like to devote myself to the dharma completely and fully.

Chögyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is not an exotic or out-of-reach approach. It is immediate and personal, and it involves an intimate relationship with ourselves. It is getting to know ourselves by examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.

There is something to do, but at the same time whatever you are doing is only related to the moment rather than being related to achieving some goal in the future, which brings us back to the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of beginning to set foot on the path; it is realizing that you are already on the path—fully being in the nowness of this very moment—now, now, now. You do not actually begin because you have never really left the path.

I was taught that only about 25 percent of your concentration should be put on the breath when you're meditating. This is just a rough estimate, so please don't fixate on the percentage. The point is that in this approach, working with breath is just touching the highlights of the breathing. You don't remain completely one with it all the time.

Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely exposed, awake, so be it.

The basic discipline of mind training or lojong is a sevenfold cleaning or processing of one's mind.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.

I was thinking about a lot of things at that moment, really, and I mean a lot of things. Like the way squirrels in my front yard won't play with me. But more serious stuff too.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I find that physics is like oysters—it's best first thing in the morning—so I always have these physics books in the loo.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." She reread the passage three times, then closed her Bible and her eyes. "Oh,

It is the design of Scripture that God should be at the center of our thoughts and dreams.

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

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This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.