Meditation quotes by Sadhguru
One is successful only when he finds full expression to all that he is and that will never ever happen without one becoming meditative. One has to become meditative otherwise he will never know the nature of his existence.
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If you take away your wrong identifications (with things which you are not), then you will see that your mind is just like a mirror, not saying anything, just reflecting, that is how your mind should work.
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Meditation is essentially to move towards the stillness, to become like the core of existence. It is not that you have to strive to become like that. If you learn to penetrate, it is like that. It is not something that you do, because doing is movement. It is something that you fall back into
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If you do not know how to be still, you can only be ill, there is no other way. You may have different names for your illness.
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Meditation is not something you do, if you handle the body, the mind, emotions and energy properly you become meditative, if you try to become meditative you go crazy
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Meditativeness means to become in such a way that you are not the source of the problem. Wherever you are, you’re a solution, you’re not a problem.
Life Problems Solution Spirituality
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If you are not identified with the accumulations of body and mind, you will become still. And that is all it takes to meditate
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Prayer means you are trying to tell God what to do. Meditation means you understand your limitations and shut up
God Spirituality Limitation Understanding
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If you stop identifying with things that you are not, your mind will become still. That's all it takes to meditate
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All activities have a beginning and an end. What meditation means is to be involved without activity
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What meditation means is, in one way, you are just withdrawing the support for your personality.
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If one dissolves in the soundless silence, to him alone the realms of the beyond will yield.
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If you find the rhythm of a certain dimension of existence, then one becomes naturally meditative
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All meditation Quotes ⇑
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises
Freedom Wisdom Thought Perception
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Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source
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The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering. Meditation is the nourishment for flowering
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When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable. Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of your body and mind.
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Prayer means you are trying to talk to God. Meditation means you are willing to listen to God
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Meditation essentially means the individual person is not doing his own thing. He is just there. Once you are simply there, you become aware of the larger dimension of the existence that is always in action
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Meditation makes you realize that you have too many limitations of your own and they are all created by you
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Meditation gives you an experience, an inner state where what is you and what is yours is separated. There is a little space between what is you and what you have accumulated
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When someone is not eating properly, I cannot talk spirituality to them or teach them meditation, because when a man is hungry, talking to him about meditation and spirituality is obscene. It is vulgar
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(If there has to be world peace) The first thing a human being has to learn is to be peaceful within himself
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Meditation means going back to one's original nature. When one is simply with this breath, all identifications dissolve.
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All that moves will exhaust itself. Only that which is still, is for always. Meditation is essentially to move towards that stillness, to become like the core of existence
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Most people cannot meditate unless they exhaust the karma of activity within themselves. The prarabdha karma is like a coiled-up spring, it has to find its release. If you don't give it constructive work, it will find release in all kinds of perversions.
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All that you call as life, all that you generally know as life is the surface reverberance, but once you have the taste of stillness, if you wish you can play the surface; otherwise you can just fall back.
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Forget about meditation, most people cannot sleep. This is because they are so horribly identified with things they are not.
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if Americans tear their trousers everybody tears, Americans wear their pants down in their seat everybody does the same thing, Americans drink carbon dioxide, everybody does that. So I thought if we can get America to meditate, the world will meditate
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They said, ‘You meditate.’ I said, ‘I don't know how to meditate.’ They said, ‘You are teaching meditation to everybody, you don't know how to mediate?’ I said, ‘Yes, I teach meditation to people because they do not know how to sit still.’
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A rocket shoots up because all the energy is released in one direction. Similarly, brahmacharya means to power yourself in such a way that everything in you becomes unidirectional - you break all existing limitations and go to another dimension.
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One who cannot laugh, cannot meditate. Laughter is a certain exuberance of your energy. Meditation is ultimate exuberance of your energy without physical action.
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Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you
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Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind
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On the yogic path drugs are a taboo, not because of moral correctness, but because of the limitation that they are
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Meditation means you don't have to grin every moment of your life. You learn to smile with your bones
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If even the bones in your body begin to smile, that is meditation - not becoming rigid and frigid within yourself.
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The whole effort of yogic practices and meditation is to move to a higher level of vibrancy and awareness. You can make yourself in such a way that in your presence, people become peaceful and joyful.
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If you meditate every day, a day will come when you open your eyes, and you can still experience that the mind is there and you are here. This is the end of suffering
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Meditation means our mind should behave according to our wishes. When your mind listens to you, then you will not create needless suffering, anxiety and fear.
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Sport demands a certain sense of Abandon. It is only in abandoning yourself can you become meditative. Be a Sport.
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People enjoy cinema because you switch off the lights, they’re focused on one thing for ninety minutes or so, their usual monologues are gone, something else is happening. Their attention is engaged continuously, this is a rudimentary form of meditation called dharana
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When I was young I hated classical music, I was into western music, the moment I started meditating, the classical music suddenly became music for me, I wanted to listen to it
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When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space are consequences of the mind
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If we can make just 1% of the population meditative, this world will be a different place
Change Short Transformation World
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Essentially, meditation means to experientially realize that you are not an individual bubble – you are a universe
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Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete
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Yoga and meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior so that you can live a joyous and peaceful life.
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Yoga and meditation are simple ways to turn your attention inward and begin to experience how this source of creation is functioning from within you.
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When you’re mostly your own mind, you need guidance & guidance & guidance & guidance. If you are all receptivity you don’t even need a master, I’m telling you, because grace is all over. You don’t need a master, you don’t need a temple, you don’t need a meditation, you don’t need anything
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If you cultivate your body, mind, emotion and energy to a certain level of maturity, you become meditative
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Our aspiration should be to become a sensible, gentle nation, which is for wellbeing for itself and, as far as possible, wellbeing for everyone in the world. India should aspire to make every nation meditative
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If I sit still, everything goes still within me. If I sit like this for five days I won't have a single thought in my mind
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As no-thingness is packaged in every atom and every cell of your body, we package Shoonya into a meditation
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Once you are meditative, music will naturally be a part of your life. Everything is vibration – everything is sound.
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