Top 1200 Meditation Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My life coach is very spiritual, and I do a lot of meditation and mantras.

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Do not lose your independent mind, unconditioned mind. You have by nature a very powerful mind. You can find everything for yourself; you can know everything for yourself.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Your mind is like a servant to you. Whatever you are being in the midst of your mind, your mind is going to be the same to you.

Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

My day starts with chants, prayers, yoga and meditation.

Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

Exercising has a calming influence on me. It's almost like a meditation.

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

Meditation means to awaken new dimensions within you.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.