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“Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.”
Source: Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.”
“Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living every moment of your life. Walking, sleeping, sitting, talking, listening - it has to become a kind of climate. A relaxed person remains in it. A person who goes on dropping the past remains meditative.”
“Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.”
“Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.”
Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)
“meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.”
“Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.”
“Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.”
“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”
Source: Freedom, Love, and Action
“Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society.”
Source: Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.”
“Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.”
“Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”
“Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.”
Source: Being Peace
“Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy.”
“Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.”
“Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.”
“Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.”
“Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you”
“Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.”
“Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.”
“Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.”
Source: Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
“Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.”
Source: The Meditative Mind
“Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.”
“Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and other stress marker indicators.”
“Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything.
Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.
We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations.
But by meditating-by not doing anything-
all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.”
“Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Meditation is only a tool, self-realization is only a process and self-actualization is the next step to bring down that which is realized as a higher truth or idea. This is converted into a service for a bigger need and for a greater whole.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“Meditation is our pause button in a world that never stops.”
Source: Be a VESSEL, Not a Chaser – Lao Tzu Lessons of Success
“Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.”
“Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.”
“Meditation is preparing one hand for blessing the world and preparing the other hand for doing well-being of the world.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.”
“Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.”
“Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.”
“Meditation is seeing the eternal beauty of your own soul in the light of your soul.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”
“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.”
“Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.”
“Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.”
“Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.”
“Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.”
“Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat”
“Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Meditation is simply getting to know your mind.”
“Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.”
“Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.”
“Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.”
Source: Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath