Quotes About Meditation

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.

Breathe through your eyes," she said. "I'm sorry?" "It relaxes the muscles. It's called pranayama.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief. We

Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens...opens the mind.

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

We must stop rejecting the discoveries of science. We must stop denouncing provable facts. We must become a spiritual partner of science, using our vast experience—millennia of philosophy, personal inquiry, meditation, soul-searching—to help humanity build a moral framework and ensure that the coming technologies will unify, illuminate, and raise us up…rather than destroy us.

When the mind is creating troubles, it's time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.

I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.

Finally, I realized the process of real meditation—to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.

when profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.

But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

As a flame blown out by the wind Goes to rest and cannot be defined So the wise man freed from individuality Goes to rest and cannot be defined. Gone beyond all images— Gone beyond the power of words.

ponderously

But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes. Thus

We all retreat into ourselves in some way.

Sounds like

Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment

I'm curious how someone...finds God, or solace, or peace or whatever it is he finds out here alone...while he's reciting words. Is it just a matter of believing what you say?

ritual that allows me to enter a contemplative place—a place in which I might come upon something wordless and profound. Maybe the rituals are a doorway to prayer. But I spent most of my life confusing them with prayer itself.

it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.