Top 165 Chanting Quotes & Sayings

With the years passing I feel the need to know more about meditation, kriya yoga and chanting.

Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name.

Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in all the different forms. If our beloved deity is Krishna, then while chanting the names of the Divine Mother, imagine that Krishna has come before us as Devi. We should not think that since we are chanting Devi's names, Krishna might not like it. These differences exist only in our world, not in His.

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.

When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

When you win you're going to get fans chanting your name and when you don't do great they're going to give you stick.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.

...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached.

Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.

It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

I haven't had people chanting at me in the street.

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'

If yelling and threatening, intimidating and chanting solved problems, Illinois wouldn't have any problems. We're good at that stuff.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in the mind may not always be possible at first, so in the beginning, practice japa by moving the lips incessantly-like a fish drinking water.

Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of the Self.

Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.

I can still deliver behind closed doors, we just need to get a recording of the fans singing and shouting in the arena so I can hear them chanting.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.

Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

Orthodox chanting is non-emotional; it's very monotone.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.