Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

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'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

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

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

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.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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

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.

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

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

I always used to be like, 'I don't need to meditate.' And it's not true.

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

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

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.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.