Richard Foster Quotes

It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.

Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.