Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Meditation Quotes

Sleep is the best meditation. 
Dalai Lama 

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. 
Dalai Lama 

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. 
Voltaire 

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. 
Benjamin Disraeli 

The flowering of love is meditation. 
Jiddu Krishnamurti 

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. 
Madame de Stael 

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. 
Alice Walker 

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. 
Sri Chinmoy 

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. 
Dalai Lama 

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. 
Ted Hughes 

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

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. 
Andre Maurois 

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way. 
Gillian Anderson 

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. 
William Godwin 

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs. 
Sting 

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

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. 
Harrison Ford 

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. 
Pearl S. Buck 

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind. 
Joseph Smith, Jr. 

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


The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. 
James Allen 

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep. 
Mike Love 

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. 
Walter Bagehot 

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

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more. 
Ziggy Marley 

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. 
Emilio Estevez 

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. 
Christy Turlington 

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. 
Mariel Hemingway 

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path. 
Mariel Hemingway 

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. 
Mariel Hemingway 

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. 
William Cowper 

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. 
Henri Cartier-Bresson 

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. 
Anne Stevenson 

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. 
George Saunders 

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. 
Jean Arp 

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. 
Daniel Goleman 

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. 
Judy Collins 

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. 
Judy Collins 

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. 
Carol P. Christ 

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. 
Richard Gere


The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging. 
Carolyn Murphy 

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. 
Johannes Tauler 

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

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action. 
Francis Quarles 

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. 
Russell Brand 

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. 
Swami Sivananda 

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. 
John Astin 

My workout is my meditation. 
Kyle MacLachlan 

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. 
David Brainerd 

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. 
Daniel Goleman 

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3. 
Steve Zahn 

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. 
Martin Chemnitz 

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. 
Karl Jaspers 

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. 
Raul Julia 

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. 
John McLaughlin 

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. 
Chiang Kai-shek 

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. 
Peter Wright 

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

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. 
Prem Rawat 

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. 
Mike Love



Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. 
Mike Love 

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation. 
Nicole Eggert 

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation. 
Michael Emerson 

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. 
Owen Feltham 

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. 
Eknath Easwaran 

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. 
Mark Tobey 

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

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