Top 1200 Meditation Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.

Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice.

If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction. We do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the me, love is the conflict of the me and the not-me. This conflict, this torture, is not love. Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind. So it is vital for us all to familiarize ourselves with the nature of mind while we are still alive. Only then will we be prepared for the time when it reveals itself spontaneously and powerfully at the moment of death; be able to recognize it "as naturally," the teachings say, "as a child running into its mother's lap"; and by remaining in that state, finally be liberated.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

I like to start my day with meditation followed by yoga and then exercise.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.