Dan Millman Quotes

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

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.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

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.

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

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

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

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.

In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

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.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.