Meditating Quotes

“What is life?
Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but experience isn’t life.
Life is reflecting and meditating
but reflection isn’t life.
Life is helping and guiding
but philanthropy isn’t life.
Life is eating and drinking
but food isn’t life.
Life is reading and dancing
but art isn’t life.
Life is kissing and pleasuring
but sex isn’t life.
Life is winning and losing
but competition isn’t life.
Life is loving and caring
but love isn’t life.
Life is birthing and nurturing
but children aren’t life.
Life is letting go and surrendering
but death isn’t life.
Life is all these things
but all these things aren’t life.
Life is
always more.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Look at a tree, how calm, lovely and beautiful she is. She is always meditating for the love of the sun.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!”
― Karl Rahner, The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . .

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.”
― Baron D'Holbach

“It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.”
― Bertold Brecht

“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you don't know the effect of
words, you are behind times.If
you want positivity, speak
positively

If you don't know the effect of
thoughts, you are behind
times.If you want positivity,
think positively

If you don't know the effect of
meditation, you are behind
times. If you desire something,
listen to your God.”
― Val Uchendu

“The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things down at this level that I can't on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me towards [...] the next right thing, one thing at a time. That was how I began to know what to do next. That was how I began to walk through my life more clearly, solid and steady.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink. It struck me that this is why we say to people, "Calm down." Because beneath the noise of the pounding, swirling surf is a place where all is quiet and clear. The chaos stills in this deep.”
― Glennon Doyle, Get Untamed: The Journal

“One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence”
― Judy Croome, A Lamp at Midday

“Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Transcending to a higher level of consciousness does not just involve strength and endurance, it requires a little vulnerability and compassion. Openness, insight, understanding, change, acceptance and action. ~ The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“A tree is always meditating, so nothing can disturb her inner peace.”
― Debasish Mridha

“I did not have many questions when I started meditating but I did find many answers.”
― J.R. Incer, Boost Your Brainpower 365

“Ohms are the window wipers that clear my mind.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“The Doctor In You.

Anyone can attain & maintain excellence in health at any age.”
― Marva Riley, Eat! Sleep! Meditate! A Nurse’s Guide to Health

“The words "silent" and "listen" have the same letters. Meditation often works better than medication.”
― Jeffrey Rossman, The Mind-Body Mood Solution: The Breakthrough Drug-Free Program for Lasting Relief from Depression

“Caterpillar becomes a pupa, meditates and becomes a colorful butterfly!”
― Ankala Subbarao

“[When the negative mind is neutralized through meditation], the body is set free to do what nature designed it to do: repair itself.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya

“Solve all your problems through meditation.
Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact.
Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception.
Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya