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Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.
I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.
I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.
Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!
[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.
Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.
When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and meditation practice.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.
Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.
The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.
I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM [Transcendental Meditation] and that's really changed everything.
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.
Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.
I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.
The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.
Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.
If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.