If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity. . . Yet how often we forget about love.
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.
I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.
I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.
Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and reclaim the innate wisdom of your body. But it is only after you rediscover the self-luminous nature of your own mind that you will begin to experience the true power of asana. That discovery comes from the meditative aspect of yoga.
Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.
If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
