Harold B. Lee Quotes

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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 had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.

Yoga is not about the history of yoga. Yoga is not about being in a sacred community of the initiated few. Yoga is about uniting inward, which takes place in the present, not the past, in each and every moment.

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

Before you find a way to channel your emotional energy, you must take time to be still and actually feel. Meditation is a simple tool for becoming present.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.