Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.

The mind can go in a thousand directions but on this beautiful path I walk in peace. With each step the wind blows. With each step a flower blooms.

Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.

He sat thus lost in meditation thinking Om his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

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.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow appreciate and honor the uniqueness and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. From the book Yoga in Your Daily Life by Amit Ray and Banani Ray

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

when we look up it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe so insignificant and we all take ourselves so seriously but in the sky there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

We need something that encourages us to work we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

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

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Rome is not outside me but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness her tragic countryside her own beauty and harmony all these are mine for my thought and my work.

As I explore the wilderness of my own body I see that I am made of blood and bones sunlight and water pesticide residues and redwood humus the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors particles of exploded stars.

Keep your heart clearAnd transparentAnd you willNever be bound.A single disturbed thoughtCreates ten thousand distractions.

For all of us love can be the natural state of our own being naturally at peace naturally connected because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

There are times when we stop we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why to meditate on Gods will and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

So what is a good meditator A good meditator meditates.

No difference good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Life is a mystery mystery of beauty bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

To meditate only you must smile. Smile with face smile with mind and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

Let the breath lead the way.

That deep silence has a melody of its own a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the worlds sounds.

Meditating light,Reality of love,Sunshiny simple truth.

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

But people of the deepest understanding look within distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy compassion for the unhappy delight in the virtuous and indifference toward the wicked.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there buried under the 50000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day

We must experience the Truth in a direct practical and real way this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Just as writing can become calligraphy when its creatively skillfully and consciously performed so can all other activities become art. In this case we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statementthe art of living.

Inking is meditation in liquid form...

This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it is present with thy Lord, thy purposes, thy hopes.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seers own form.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me amp that object I desire.

Look within There is no difference between yourself Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher there is no student there is no teaching.

You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly dont use logic when I do it. Logics the first thing you have to get rid of.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice amp determination to carry it out.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

The act of meditation is being spacious.

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled and reflect on my youthful disobedience for these things I weep mine eye runneth down with water.

The word innocence means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures and take ships out to sea. They are the oceans pulse and our own heartbeat.

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.

Meditation is silence energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

The period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta the Brahmic time or divine period and is a very sacred time to meditate. 140

To be kind to others and to ourselves is as natural as a flower opening in the sun.

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.

Ah yes choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.

Selfobservation is the first step of inner unfolding.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion cools your fears with peace.

Buddha rst taught metta meditation as an antidote as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty greed destructiveness and shortsightedness.

We can understand the inherent radiance amp purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age transcend both past and future and enter into nakaimathe eternal present.

Meditate Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part emptyTake another sip.And now

Exercises are like prose whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga you can write your poetry of movements.

We all have issues amp we have usually come by them honestly.

Meditation may be done in silence amp stillness by using voice amp sound or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Recognize that God is with you. Acknowledge God knows what Hes doing. Search for Gods will the path He desires you to take in life. Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross forgiveness and righteousness

Because the development of inner calm amp energy happens completely within amp isnt dependent on another person or a particular situation we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautifuland a huge relief.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Respond dont react.Listen dont talk.Think dont assume.

Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

When many voices are speaking at once listen to the one most quiet and gentle. Thats the one worth listening to. Miranda

Working with people from awareness means to be available. It means to respond with the truth in the moment. It means to respond to the moment in a way that creates a fragrance of love.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment amp thus true love.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the momenttomoment experience cleanses the mental layers one after another.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

The words were unexpected but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart that wants to be found wants to be spoken wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Without patience magic would be undiscovered in rushing everything we would never hear its whisper inside.

Meditation allow your garden to grow and flourish, Even from the hardest rock!

Yoga is not just repetation of few postures it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

If you have time to be mindful you have time to meditate.

Hold the thoughts know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps be the witness to them and you shall be meditating

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore Gods will and his grace.

The succession of thoughts appears in time but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.