Best meditation & concentration Quotes

“Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.”

Mind Light Perfect Silence Practice Meditation Buddhism Flow Various Technique Concentration Parameters Mind And Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.”

People Looks Littles Might Eye Bits Levels Views Meditation Objects Little Bit Tables Hopefully Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.”

Knows Lines Focus Meditation Keys Concentration Bows Know Me Arrows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.”

Should Firsts Meditation Minutes Yoga Intellect Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.”

Mind Persons Study Meditation Concentration Introduction Gymnast

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.”

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Book:Exploring Buddhism

Source: Exploring Buddhism

“Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.”

Mind Real Known Meditation Speech Concentration Conception Unreal Relativity Brahman

Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.”

World Way Order Path Meditation This Life Liberation Concentration Liberated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.”

Desire Deals Path Meditation Offers Frustration Concentration Aversion Operating Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it, dissolving it, sometimes thousands of times in a microsecond or outside of time.”

Mind Sometimes Universe Meditation Aspect Method Various Concentration Formation Joining Dissolving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.”

Today Past Consciousness Meditation Awareness Concentration Mysticism Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.”

Feels Meditation Gains Feel Good Concentration Mysticism Make You Feel Good Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Process Meditation Particular Calling Concentration Invites

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself

“There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.”

Inspiration Next Five Meditation Stage Contemplation Concentration Illumination

Author:Benjamin Creme

“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

Ifs Dream Body Today Energy Practice Meditation Tomorrow Walking Mindfulness Sitting Cells Concentration Today And Tomorrow

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.”

“Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it.”

Life Should Mind Doe States Moments Wisdom Meditation Development Conscious Sitting Opposites Corners Concentration Daily Life State Of Mind Doing Nothing

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.”

Giving Heart Dream Meditation Awareness Concentration

Book:The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

Source: The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.”

Meditation Flow Oil Concentration Deep Meditation

Author:Patanjali

“Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.”

Helping Attention Focus Meditation Concentration

Author:Andrew Weil

“One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.”

Differences Meditation Direct Connections Silent Dependent Concentration Chanting Silent Meditation

Author:George Harrison

“In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration will come automatically. When you get such concentration, then you get peace of mind.”

Mind Firsts Helping Body Meditation Yoga Concentration Peace Of Mind Steady

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Ideas States Strong Memories Meditation Plans Blame Disappear Concentration Mistaken Tranquility Blankness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”

Mind Inspiration Practice Sun Meditation Concentration Rays Power Of The Mind Meditation Practice

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.”

Mind Helping Form Meditation Yoga Concentration

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

Ifs Knows World Art Meditation Divine Contemplation Concentration Inner World Outer Worlds Meditation Mind Sri Lanka

Book:Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

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