The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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.
Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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.
A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness. . . it's just been a really great thing in my life.
The physical is only a small aspect of existence. In this cosmos, not even 1% is physical - the rest is non-physical.
One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of God, meditation, confession, community, and worship. But each evening I take my medication with a prayer of thanksgiving that God has provided this kind of help for those of us who need it.
Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.
To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the bodymind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.
I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.
I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.