Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind--an effort to bring awareness to bear on all aspects of life. It is, in other words, part of what has been called the perennial philosophy.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

Meditation is the action of silence.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

Meditation is not about doing something

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.