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

Religion, Live, Human

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

Happiness, Past, Avoid

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

Anyone, Buddhism, Adopt

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

Thinking, Thoughts, Knowing

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

Long, Nothing, Human

The flowering of love is meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Flowering

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

Good, Yourself, Self

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

Life, Humanity, Silence

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

Art, Divine, Inner

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

Life, Knowledge, Beautiful

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

God, Experience, Through

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

Strength, Self, Prayer

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Best, Mind

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

Everything, Country, Learned

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres

Patience, Learning, Mind

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

End, Joy, Beginning

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

Yourself, Mean, Living

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

Nature, Find, Practice

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

Strength, Self, Prayer

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

Learning, Heart, May

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

Soul, Spirit, Language

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
Ringo Starr

End, Made, Keep

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley MacLaine

Time, Mind, Reality

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
Hugh Jackman

Dad, Husband, Powerful

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

Writing, Done, Before

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

Reaction, Drawing, Immediate

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

Sleep, Deep, Down

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

Practice, Bliss, Eternal

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

Brain, Balance, Golf

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