Quotes About Meditation

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Be happy. Think, "O Lord, You are my everything. You are my goal. You are my breath." Do not think, "This is mine, that is mine." Instead think, "All is You. All is Yours."

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

The goal actually, is to wake up now.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.