Quotes About Meditation

Perfection in an asana is achieved when the effort to achieve it becomes effortless, and the infinite being within is reached.

The eight-limbed path, or ashtanga yoga, is: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

the breath is seen as a gateway to the world of vital energetic currents generated in the human body and controlling all the biological processes.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.

praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

He'd just sit down, shut his eyes, make this little smile, breathe deep and slow for ten minutes. And then he'd be fine and go back to work. Finally, I asked Kumar if he was praying. He said, no, he was meditating. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It's funny.

During the rests - pray.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

I can't stop thinking like this.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.