Mary Pipher Quotes

Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.

Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

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

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

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.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

When the mind is totally still, there's only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, "Oh my God! I'm clear! I love this!"

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.