Meditation Quotes And Sayings

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“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently ”
– Osho

“He showed me a sketch he’d drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart. To find the balance you want,” Ketut spoke through his translator, “this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“The Way to do is to be. ”
– Lao Tzu

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ”
– Amit Ray

“Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity ”
– Tony Samara

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence. ”
– Tony Samara

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ”
– Jean Yves Leloup

“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
– Amit Ray

“The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. ”
– Marcus Aurelius

“All problems are illusions of the mind. ”
– Eckhart Tolle

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“…the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us. ”
– Melody Beattie

“Sleep is the best meditation. ”
– Dalai Lama

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance. ”
– Osho

“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading, we’re thinking. It’s a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we’re looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there’s not as much reflective time. And it’s the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me. ”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it. ”
– Annie Dillard

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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