Best meditation & stillness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.”

Life Inspirational Stills Happens Meditation Stillness Radiance Life Happens

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

Mind Natural Clear Meditation Imagine Sky Empty Calm Clouds Surface Disappear Lakes Stillness Imagine That Ripple

Author:Kathleen McDonald

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.”

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Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy”

Joy Meditation Stillness

Author:Margaret Silf

“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

Sound Space Silence Meditation Journey Movement Identity Stillness Unlimited

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.”

Soul Secret Meditation Yield Stillness Detachment

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.”

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Book:Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

Source: Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

“After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.”

Important Action Meditation Stillness

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

“Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.”

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Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.”

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Author:Stephanie Ellis

“Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.”

Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.”

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Author:Donna Karan

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.”

Firsts Feelings Pain Loses Meditation Pure Burning Heat Sensations Association Stillness Mosquitoes Euphoria

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.”

Able Used Practice Meditation Sensations Stillness Quietness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.”

Powerful Destiny Meditation Awareness Perspective Yoga Mediums Wellness Most Powerful Stillness Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Rod Stryker

“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”

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Author:Huineng

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