Meditation Quotes - Page 9

Before I was a Scientist, I was a Monk. And before I was a Monk, I was a naive young mind with ever- flowing streams of questions. And one of those questions, that always used to create intense ripples of curiosity in my psyche, was - Does God exist? And has anyone seen or experienced him?

Abhijit Naskar

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

Abhijit Naskar

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

Abhijit Naskar

Imagine yourself having a fight with your romantic partner. The tension of the situation makes your limbic system run at full throttle and you become flooded with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenalin. The high levels of these chemicals suddenly make you so damn angry, that you burst out in front of your partner saying, “I wish you die, so that I can have some peace in my life”. Given the stress of the situation through highly active limbic system, your PFC loses its freedom to take the right decision and you burst out with foul language in front of your partner, that may ruin your relationship. In simple terms due to your mental instability, you lost your free will to make the right decision.But when the conversation is over, and you relax for a while, your stress hormone levels come down to normal, and you regain your usual cheerful state of mind. Immediately, your PFC starts analyzing the explosive conversation you had with your partner. Healthy activity of the entire frontal lobes, especially the PFC suddenly overwhelms you with a feeling of guilt. Your brain makes you realize, that you have done something devilish. As a result, now you find yourself making the willful decision of apologizing to your partner and making up to him or her, no matter how much effort it takes, because your PFC comes up the solution that it is the healthiest thing to do for your personal life.From this you can see, that what you call free will is something that is not consistent. It changes based on your mental health. Mental instability or illness, truly cripples your free will. And the healthier your frontal lobes are, the better you can take good decisions. And the most effective way to keep your frontal lobes healthy is to practice some kind of meditation.

Abhijit Naskar

One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

Sharon Salzberg

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

Leslie Bratspis

A new mind, equals a new life.

Lalah Delia

My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith “Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”, I say ”Jo Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal”. My translation of the former is “He who utters ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”, while the latter translates to “He who experiences ‘Great Eternal Truth’ becomes joyous”.

Abhijit Naskar

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

Abhijit Naskar

If Christ attained the state of Absolute Divinity, so can you. And once you do, then only you will understand the true meaning of Religion and God.

Abhijit Naskar

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

Lalah Delia

True happiness is realized beyond circumstance. It is universal relationship, not centered or devoted or residing on other individual relationships we have. True happiness sees the actions of others as directly connected to who we ourselves are. It sees beyond individually separated relationships and is birthed from one great relationship with everything there is.

Saunsea

You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people--not trees or brooks or deer--can we train ourselves to be selfless in personal relationships.

Eknath Easwaran

Healing—takes time,and—so does—not healing.Chose—how you spend your time —wisely.

Lalah Delia

Sometimes we find the sweetest solidarity in the midst of solitude.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.

Sharon Salzberg

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

Sharon Salzberg

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

Sharon Salzberg

Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

Sharon Salzberg

Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don’t sense it.

Sharon Salzberg

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one’s friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion.

Sharon Salzberg

When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.

Sharon Salzberg

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.

Sharon Salzberg

From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.

Sharon Salzberg

Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. What’s more, we’re encouraged to accept the impermanence of all things: the flower that blooms today will be gone tomorrow, the objects we possess will break or fade or lose their utility, our relationships will change, life will end.

Sharon Salzberg

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Sharon Salzberg

We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love.

Sharon Salzberg

A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

Sharon Salzberg

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

Sharon Salzberg

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Sharon Salzberg

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love.

Sharon Salzberg

Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

Sharon Salzberg

Self-care is how you take your power back.

Lalah Delia

RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner being. The entire universe is a manifestation of our own inner being. Man is the microcosm and the universe is the macrocosm. In our inner being, we are one with all.True relationships is to see ourselves in all beings and to see all beings in ourselves. The inner being is not only present in human beings, but it is also present in flowers, trees, animals, stones and the stars. The divine exists everywhere in nature. Once we realize this we will never feel alone. We find the communion of the heart everywhere.

Swami Dhyan Giten

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.

Mark Epstein

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.

Mark Epstein

Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and the whole world.

Amit Ray

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Allan Lokos

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Allan Lokos

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

Avis J. Williams

Some champions are born others are forged!

Kierra C.T. Banks

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.

Sharon Salzberg

Is there any success, without the soundness of mind?

Lailah Gifty Akita

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

Charles F. Glassman

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

H.E. Davey

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Jean-Yves Leloup

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Voltaire

Meditation on the Holy Scripture is life to your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Mediate on the word of God day and night, then be careful to write the sacred words on your heart. And find grace to obey it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,

Lailah Gifty Akita

when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

Julia Gregson

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Amit Ray

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Amit Ray

There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

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