Johannes Tauler 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.

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

I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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.

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.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

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

You cannot turn your brain off or stop your thoughts, but you can try while meditating not to become too invested in them. This is called transcendental meditation, which is the kind I practice.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

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

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

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.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

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.