Quotes About Meditation

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.