Om Meditation Quotes
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.
In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.
You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
Your inner voice and the spiritual guidance...will lead you to your goal.
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.
Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.
Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.
Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.
Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.
It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.
Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.
Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.
Success comes from finding your center and self.
I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.
Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.
Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!
In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.
Through meditation, difficult thoughts and emotions may well rise up. And through practice, you can meet such emotions with kindness, listen to them, explore them and then really let them go.
It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Sitting meditation begins with good posture.
Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.
Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.
The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.
Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.