Quotes About Meditation

James Joyce described this relationship in the line, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Then one day you will be sitting and fear will arise, and you will feel it and recognize it and think, "Oh, this is fear, I recognize you. Welcome back." Then it is as if the fear becomes one of your friends.

Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way, is at the heart of meditation. After

Meditation is a practice that can teach us to enter each moment with wisdom, lightness, and a sense of humor. It is an art of opening and letting go, rather than accumulation or struggle. Then, even within our frustrations and difficulties, a remarkable inner sense of support and perspective can grow.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

In low levels of consciousness it is unwise to believe, trust or follow our thinking

Once a year, lock your office door and leave for a "think week"—ideally to a remote location with ample exposure to Mother Nature—and ruminate about the "day after tomorrow.

No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan

Breathe in," Wilbur said. "Be aware of your breath. Breathe out. Focus your awareness on your arms. Focus your awareness on your toes. Focus your awareness on Leonardo da Vinci, standing on a hill outside of Florence, locking all the secrets into codes, and studying birds.

Aprender de uno mismo significa tener la capacidad de observarse y de deducir, a partir de la observación, el estado en el cual funcionamos y lo que necesitamos corregir del mismo. Para poder observar nuestro interior, la herramienta fundamental es la concentración.

Jacqueline Davies

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Write down what I think I know. The knowing will come. Just keep listening...

Think about some of the "simplest

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Time works for those who place themselves beyond time.

Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...

To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.

Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.

If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.

By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.