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“Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.”
Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
“Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.”
“Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.”
“Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.”
“Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.”
“Meditation is that exercise of the mind, whereby it recalls a known truth, as some kinds of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon, until all the nutritious parts are extracted, and fitted for the purposes of life.”
“Meditation is the action of silence.”
Source: Meditations
“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.”
Source: Knowing God
“Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.”
“Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.”
“Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.”
“Meditation is the art of being alone. It is to forget the whole world. It is to forget the worries, chaos and tensions of the world
as if it does not exist anymore. When you come to that space inside you, when only you are and nothing else exists, that is aloneness.
It is not loneliness. You are with yourself. You are not missing anything. For the first time you are with yourself, For the first time you are not lonely.
Ordinarily people are lonely even when they are in a crowd of people. Even while they are with friends, they are lonely. One tries to forget the loneliness through alcohol, looking at TV or through being constantly occupied. One tries anything that can help you to forget yourself and your loneliness. But sooner or
later you have to come back to yourself and your loneliness. People are lonely in crowds and lonely in their relationships.
Meditation is what creates a miracle: you are alone, but you are not lonely. For the first time you are with yourself, for the first time you can love yourself in your aloneness. For
the first time you find bliss of aloneness.
The moment that you start finding the bliss of your aloneness, it becomes wisdom. Then you are not dependent on anybody. You have found the source of bliss within yourself. That is wisdom. Now you have freedom: you can be everywhere, and you can be blissful.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.”
“Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.”
“Meditation is the art of enjoying your own aloneness, and love is the art of relating with others. These two qualities are the most important in life. Meditation is far more important than love, because love is only possible if meditation becomes possible.
A person who cannot enjoy his own aloneness cannot enjoy relating with others. That is the basic reason why the two persons
in a relationship are always in such a conflict. They basically meet out of need, because they cannot be alone. They feely empty and they are unable to be alone. They have only a negative experience of aloneness, so it is like an inner wound that hurts. And one needs some support and somebody to cling to. So both people in a relationship desire the other for support. But sooner or later this will create conflict and frustration,
because both are lonely and they want the other to fill their emptiness and loneliness.
It is only two meditator that can relate out of joy, because both are capable of being alone. There is no need for the other. Now they can relate, because they have
something to share. They do not relate out of need, but out of joy and abundance. The meditator can love himself in his own aloneness. which means that he can enjoy everything.
The ancient spiritual scriptures say that wherever a real meditator sits, the whole place becomes a sacred place.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.”
“Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.”
“Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your sanity intact. Meditation is the greatest discovery ever made, and I don't think there is ever going to be another discovery which can surpass meditation.”
“Meditation is the beginning of a long journey. If you allow the journey much can happen, but it depends on you and how much you allow. It is difficult to allow, because it needs trust. It needs trust, because the journey includes challenges and taking risks.
It is a journey from the know into the unknown. They journey moves into unknown territory, where you have to leave the ego aside. You have to leave your strategies of self-defence, resistance and security. You have to leave the shore on which you have lived and move towards the vast ocean.
If one takes the risk of dropping the ego, the other shore is reached immediately, So be ready for the ultimate journey, and be fearless in absolute trust.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the beginning of a long journey. If you allow the journey much can happen, but it depends on you and how much you allow. It is difficult to allow, because it needs trust. It needs trust, because the journey includes challenges and taking risks.
It is a journey from the known into the unknown. They journey moves into unknown territory, where you have to leave the ego aside. You have to leave your strategies of self-defense, resistance and security. You have to leave the shore on which you have lived and move towards the vast ocean.
If one takes the risk of dropping the ego, the other shore is reached immediately, so be ready for the ultimate journey, and be fearless in absolute trust.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the beginning of becoming part of existence. The ego creates a separation from existence. The moment we drop the ego, then we find our roots in existence. Then there is no separation anywhere. Then God beats in our heart. The same God that flows in the rivers and rises in the sun, circulates in our blood. It is all one.
But the contemporary man feels separated and alienated. Never before has it happened on such a vast scale. Almost everybody who is intelligent feels uprooted and alienated. And of one feels alienated, life cannot be a joy.
Life is a joy only when we start feeling a home in existence. Meditation is a help to feel at home with existence, with the trees, the earth, the people and with the animals. Only this experience makes one religious.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the beginning of freedom, freedom from politics, freedom from religion and freedom from bondage. It is to enter
into universality.
A meditator is not identified with a certain country He is not Swedish, Indian or American, he is simply human. He is not white or black, because he is not the body. He is not Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan,
because ideology belongs to the mind and meditation is to transcend the mind.
All social forces are against individual freedom. Society destroys individuals, so one has to know the strategy to escape from the
prison of society and the church.
Meditation is the way to come out of the prison, and learn the language of freedom. It changes your consciousness, it changes how you see things. And the freedom that has always been within you become released, which changes you at your very roots.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the best engineering.”
“Meditation is the best form of exercise for the mind; it creates a wonderful and harmonious coexistence between the body, mind and nature.”
“Meditation is the best means of elongating life”
Source: Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.”
Source: From R to Z
“Meditation is the bridge between thought & awareness.
observation of thought dissolves the thinker & replaces it with pure awareness.”
“Meditation is the bridge between thought & awareness.
thought is its own prison, it doesn’t let you get on the bridge.Because awareness is the death of thought.
Meditation is the state of mind where thought redeems itself, & dissolves.”
“Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.”
“Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.”
“Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.”
Source: Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.”
Source: Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.”
“Meditation is the door to the divine in man. There is nothing more godly than meditation. In meditation you slip out of the mind, and you exist in your being, in your innermost core. Your being is rooted in God, the divine.
Every consciousness is rooted in God, ecause God means the ultimate consciousness. Meditation is the bridge that takes you to the very source of your being.
Once you have tasted the joy of being, then everything in life becomes divine.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Meditation is the door to the divine. Nothing is more godly than meditation, because in meditation you slip out of the mind. You disappear from the outside, and you exist at the innermost being, at your inner core.
Your innermost being is rooted in God. Just as every tree is rooted in the earth, every consciousness is rooted in God. God means the ultimate consciousness.
Meditation is the bridge to your innermost being, to your consciousness. Once you have taste the joy of being at the source, then everything else in life becomes meaningless. Then you can go on living the ordinary life, but it becomes a beautiful drama. You can playit as well as you can, but now you know that you are not part of it. It is just a role to play, but it is not your existence.
You can have all kinds of relationships in the world, but you know the beauty of being alone. You know the bliss of being. Once that window opens your life is transformed.
And that is the whole purpose of meditation: to open that window, so that you can really know that you are godly.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.”
“Meditation is the exploration of the masculine part of each of us, the “I”, divine will or ego, while ignoring the feminine part; which is the bodily or the matter.”
“Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.”
“Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.”
“Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.”
“Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.”
“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”
“Meditation is the journey to happiness.”
“Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.”
“Meditation is the key to unlocking all mysteries of life”
“Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.”
“Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.”
“Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda