Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.
Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for.
Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.
Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion. . . any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.
Singing is a form of meditation. . . apparently the only one that I have command over.
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.
Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.
It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself. . . because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.