Meditation Quotes

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
Shirley MacLaine

Remember, Everyone, Used

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
David Brainerd

Time, Heart, Thoughts

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
David Duchovny

Truth, Help, Down

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
Shirley MacLaine

Yourself, Walk, Hours

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Mind, Before

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
George Saunders

Someone, Real, Else

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman

Emotional, Ability, Quick

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
Paula Cole

Health, Self, Thinking

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
Eddie Van Halen

Home, Experience, Feeling

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Christy Turlington

Amazing, Moment, Simply

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
William Godwin

Place, Execution, Implies

I meditate. Meditation helps me.
Rick Springfield

Helps, Meditate

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Harrison Ford

Focus, Find, Away

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot

Work, Great, Long

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
Russell Brand

Principles, Hindu, Derived

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

Great, Yourself, Connected

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
Judy Collins

Mind, Help, Depression

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
Francis Quarles

Life, Soul, Honor

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
Andrew Weil

Time, Impossible, Become

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil

Mind, Remember, Point

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Andrew Weil

History, Spiritual, Long

Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.
Andrew Weil

Work, Mind, Sleep

I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
Fergie

Music, Husband, Everything

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.
Emilio Estevez

Country, Idea, Walk

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
Kelsey Grammer

Time, God, Same

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman

Moment, Ability, Attend

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

Reality, Normally

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Johannes Tauler

Good, Religious, Nodding

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.
Sri Chinmoy

Mind, Eyes, Once

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