Meditation Quotes - page 16

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results. View quote
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily. View quote
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Walk in Christ's light daily through fidelity to personal and liturgical prayer, nourished by meditation on the inspired word of God.. Make the daily celebration of the Eucharist the center of your life. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Personally, though I am recognised all over the world as a teacher of meditation I have at the same time never relinquished my habit of prayer. I believe that the true occultist uses prayer and meditation interchangeably according to need and that both are equally important in the spiritual life. The trouble with prayer has been that the average human being makes it entirely a selfish thing and a means of acquisition of things for the separated self. True prayer asks nothing for the separated self but it will always be used by those who seek to help others. View quote
Alice Bailey
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him. View quote
George Harrison
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you. View quote
George Harrison
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else. View quote
Joe Rogan
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation. (Ezra Koenig)
I'm not a person who finds meditation a doddle or to whom yoga comes naturally. To tell you the truth, I find the whole business a bit poncey and contrary to the way I used to see myself. It's only the fact that I decimated my life by aggressively pursuing the models of living that were most immediately available-eating, wanking, drinking, consuming, getting famous-that I was forced to look at alternatives. View quote
Russell Brand
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. View quote
Russell Brand
You feel like you are floating away when you do Transcendental Meditation and it just enriches your spirit and nourishes the body. I feel so grateful to the Maharishi for teaching such wonderful things. View quote
Douglas Crockford
This deep meditation brings forth non-fear, non-anger, and non-despair, the strengths we need for our work. View quote
Nhat Hanh
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong. View quote
Nhat Hanh
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. (Nhat Hanh)
When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something. View quote
Brian Wilson
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Meditation is a lot better for you, and it's great to be straight. View quote
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