Meditation Quotes And Sayings

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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ”
– Dalai Lama

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. ”
– Mother Teresa

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Offer it up personally, then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It’s not only possible, it’s essential.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection. ”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“the six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: ‘Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny. ”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. ”
– Frank O’Hara

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
– Frank O’Hara

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”
– Osho

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. ”
– C.S. Lewis

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”
– John Piper

“When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind‘s workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being–and a normal one, at that?”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.”
– Dalai Lama

“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Receive without conceit, release without struggle. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. ”
– Victor E. Frankl

“Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon’s hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly – once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear‘s caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.”
– Toni Morrison

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying…or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life. There as well: To do what needs doing.” Look inward. Don’t let the true nature of anything elude you. Before long, all existing things will be transformed, to rise like smoke (assuming all things become one), or be dispersed in fragments…to move from one unselfish act to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness…when jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“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.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

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