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Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.
Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state of mind and body.
Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.
Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort of like meditation.
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.
Playing yidaki, for me, is a meditation. It's incredibly deep breathing, but also, it's a structured process where you're circulating air.
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
I had always thought that meditation was for ladies who lunch and have nothing better to do but indulge in whatever the latest fad may be.
The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.
Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.
Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.