Meditation quotes

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◆ You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

- Shrii Shrii Anandamurti100

◆ I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

- T.S. Eliot100

◆ What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan

- Hakuin99

◆ What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

- Pema Chodron99

◆ If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

- Alan Cohen99

◆ Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

- Peter McWilliams99

◆ Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

- Buddha99

◆ Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

- Bruce Lee99

◆ 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.

- George Harrison99

◆ Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

- Ziggy Marley99

◆ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

- Owen Feltham99

◆ Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

- Richard Gere99

◆ Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

- Eknath Easwaran99

◆ I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

- James Gould Cozzens99

◆ Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

- James Allen99