Top 1200 Deep Meditation Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies through images of an impossible ideal, we create a really vulnerable and avid consumer. If somebody feels that they're not OK without a certain product, you have a very deep and loyal market that will come back to the product again and again. Sometimes, this process is both rational and irrational.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

Like many things, the hardest part about meditation is the decision to put aside the time for it.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

I smoke weed, of course. That's like meditation for me. Watching movies is a really good escape as well.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

Taking a 10-minute meditation break is something you can do anywhere in your office, and it's so easy - you're not at the altar.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

I obtain my center by remembering to breathe when in a difficult situation. My daily routine includes prayer, workouts, and meditation.

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.