Top 1200 Meditation Practice Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

I have one room dedicated to just meditation.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

Movement is meditation. Move to win.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.

Meditation helps sharpen the mind.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.

We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages in which people work. When I think of common practice I think back to the time I was studying the flute, where I learned that in the Baroque period many things were not notated, since they were understood - that was because of common practice.

Meditation is nothing but taking a mental shower.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

Meditation changes your character.

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

For me, painting is like meditation.

Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.

There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents practice being grown ups and practice for adult morality. I remember when I was 15 and people were starting to date and someone cheated on someone. They'd say, 'He cheated on her. You know what they say, once a cheater always a cheater.'

That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

Meditation is not about doing something

The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

Meditation helps you get in the zone.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete the practice of training the mind, we will totally dispel the darkness of our ignorance, but if we engage in only some parts of the practice, this will still help to reduce our ignorance and self-cherishing .

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

Without meditation, Id probably be dead.

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.

Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Meditation is important - yoga, walking.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.