Top 1200 Meditation Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.

Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.