Quotes on Meditation Mind

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.