Quotes by Meditation You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada meditation inspiration practice Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer. A. J. McLean huge meditation prayer At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Aaron Hoopes meditation essence spiritual By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. Aberjhani meditation spiritual integrity Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination. Aberjhani creative-visualization meditation imagination Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego. Adi Shankara strong meditation self Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. Adi Shankara meditation mind heart To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. Adi Shankara meditation self wise Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition. Adyashanti tunes meditation attitude True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. Adyashanti meditation goal prayer Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence. Adyashanti silence meditation mind In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing. Adyashanti knowing meditation listening Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. Adyashanti meditation real letting-go True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. Adyashanti experience meditation letting-go What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose? Adyashanti moments meditation needs Meditation is not a technique to master; Adyashanti knowing meditation prayer Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be. Adyashanti realization meditation teaching Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. Adyashanti meditation dresses death Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation. Adyashanti meditation should thinking What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation. Adyashanti meditation attention appreciation 1234567891011»