Top 1200 Meditation Practice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Every time you have a chance, go within and do your meditation.

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

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

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

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

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

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

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.

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

Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice every day." He said, "If I skip a day, I can hear it. If I skip two days, the conductor can hear it. And if I skip three days, the audience can hear it." Oh, yes, you have to keep that muscle firm.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.

Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.

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

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

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

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

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

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

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

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

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

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

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

The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

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

Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too.

Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

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

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.

Meditation is helping me stay both mentally and physically fit.

I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.

Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.

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

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

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

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

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.

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

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

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

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

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

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

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