Meditation Quotes

The reason I regard training that involves the ki energy as crucial is because ki energy is the bridge that links our body and mind. . . when you focus deeply inside on the ki energy, your mind becomes calm and serene. There's a feeling of peaceful comfort and safety that's hard to describe. Inside of that, there's no fear that you might lose something, there is no desperate need to control others, nor is there the desire for recognition or acceptance. There is only one self that is infinitely bright and peaceful and seems that for it anything would be possible.

~ Ilchi Lee

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in the consciousness of which no erroneous actions are possible. Retain the acquired joy of meditation throughout the day.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

~ Anodea Judith

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

~ Sylvain Tesson

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

~ Gary Hopkins

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

~ Sri Amma Bhagwan

Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and it combines seated meditation, moving meditation, breathing exercises, and other disciplines to help practitioners realize unification of mind and body. Besides yoga, it is a synthesis of methods, influenced by Japanese meditation, healing arts, and martial arts; along with Western psychology, medicine, and science. Shin-shin-toitsu-do is widely practiced throughout Japan, although it is almost unknown in other countries. Through its principles of mind and body coordination people have an opportunity to realize their full potential in everyday life.A remarkable man created this path, and he led an equally remarkable life. He was known in Japan as Nakamura Tempu Sensei, and this is his story.

~ H. E. Davey

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

~ Sri Amma Bhagwan.

Mindfulness isn’t inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn’t inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that’s innate in all human beings.

~ Shamash Alidina

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.

~ Guo Jun

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I will ring a bell. When you hear it, make a sound that resonates with the waves. Let it flow and develop, calling on all you have heard in the silence.

~ Alan Mccluskey

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

~ Ilchi Lee

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

~ Deepak Chopra

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.

~ Steve Goodier

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

~ Vivian Amis

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

~ Jay Michaelson

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

~ Jay Michaelson

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.

~ Thom S. Rainer

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

~ Robert A.f. Thurman

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

~ Jay Michaelson

Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.

~ Yogi Kanna

Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so real is undefined and can not be experienced. Only your experience can be experienced, and that does not encompass everything or anything.

~ Laren Grey Umphlett

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren’t mine, are at least different from the norm.

~ Jay Michaelson

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

~ Jay Michaelson

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

~ Jay Michaelson

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

~ Jay Michaelson

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

~ Jay Michaelson

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.

~ Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

Since beginners can only remain in contact with the object of observation for short periods, initially one should meditate in brief sessions even eighteen times a day; in due course stability will be achieved of its own accord, at which time the session can be lengthened. It is important not to try at first to meditate for long periods; otherwise, upon sight of the meditation cushion, one will feel nausea and laziness. The session should be left while it is going well, when one still feels that it would go well if continued.

~ Jeffrey Hopkins

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

~ Eckhart Tolle

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

~ Minor White

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.

~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

~ Thomas Brooks