3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Meditation disciplines the mind, sharpens concentration and improves memory. It also energises body and mind.

The concentration of a baby is alive wonderment. It is to that kind of organic interest, or passion, and awareness that Toni [Packer] seems to be pointing: listening that is not rote or methodical in any way. The baby has no sense yet of self-image, of itself as an object—a person—who needs to be improved, and Toni will question any meditation practice that contributes to such a picture.

How complete, whole, undivided seeing comes about is a mystery. Any formulation or method we invent will eventually get in our way. It’s as if everything we learn must be instantly left behind.

Yet, the notion that the self-comprehension that is episteme (Wissenschaft) could result from amalgamating a form of episteme from which the first person is expelled with a form of spiritual activity that is incapable of rigorous conceptual articulation is bizarre.

Meditation is a narrowing of focus that expands the soul.

If you decide to walk for others be prepared to carry them for many miles.

What is wrong, and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable, is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.

We are all spawned from the same great canvas yet we lose ourselves through the melding of vistas.

Meditation betters not only the mind but also the brain.