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“Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.”
“Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.”
Source: Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology
“Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice.”
“Meditation is as neccessary as music.”
“Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise of the train far away; something is happening in you body - your knees are hurting - right? Your mind is churning many thoughts, that 'What am I doing here?' Your heart is feeling many emotions, you have waited for this moment for so long. There is joy in the heart, a certain ecstasy, a mood, a receptivity. All those things have to be watched very minutely.”
“Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns,fears, dreams and anger.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.”
Source: Discovering the True You with Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and Transform Your Life
“Meditation is bringing the mind home.”
“Meditation is choosing not to engage in the drama of mind but elevating the mind to its highest potential.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions. (The rabbit hole of Meditation)”
“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”
“Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.”
Source: Awakening Inner Guru
“Meditation is culture.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“Meditation is cure for the mind.”
“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
“Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.”
“Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.”
“Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.”
“Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.”
Source: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness
“Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.”
“Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.”
“Meditation is experiencing the life not just from the surface but from the source.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.”
“Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.”
“Meditation is for soundness of mind.”
“Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions,
that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.”
“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.”
“Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.”
“Meditation is healing to the human mind.”
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.”
“Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.”
“Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.”
“Meditation is interacting with truth inside and scientific research is interacting with truth outside. Both are required for human evolution, emancipation and empowerment.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence
“Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.”
“Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.”
“Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.”
“Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.”
“Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.”
“Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.”
“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”
“Meditation is like a lullaby to the mind. Like the body, the mind too needs rest.”
“Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.”
“Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.”
“Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.”
“Meditation is like going to the core of oneself to experience the heights of ecstasy.”
“Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.”
“Meditation is like taking a little milk and honey bath on your psyche. "Just let that go, no, you don't need that." Then you're like, "Oh, I didn't need that," and it's really just a perception shift. I think what happens in meditation is that you drop into the oneness, and you have this little reminder that that's the truth, and what we're doing here is this game ... this life experience gift.”
“Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.”
“Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.”
Source: Meditations