Meditation Quotes

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

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

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

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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