Elizabeth Vargas Quotes

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

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.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

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

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

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

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.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

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.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

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.

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

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

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

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.