Meditation Quotes to Illuminate your PathMeditation Quotes can be read prior to meditation to give you something to contemplate during your meditations. Or, you might prefer to meditate first, and then read a quote or quotes. Or you might meditate and listen to a quote during meditation. I find it works well all ways. These meditation quotes will initially be mostly from Hazrat Inayat Khan, Puran Bair, and Jelaluddin Rumi. Rumi was a 13th century Sufi mystic poet. He is sometimes called a poet of love, with many poems and themes about the heart. Hazrat Inayat Khan, affectionately called the grandfather of the Dances Of Universal Peace, is best known for bringing Sufism (and Heart Rhythm Meditation) to the West. He was also a world-famous musician, philosopher and mystic. Puran Bair is an American mystic, co-founder of IAM, one of the foremost meditation teachers, and a pioneer in bringing heart-based meditation to the public. I have had the privilege of being personally instructed in Heart Rhythm Meditation by Puran. Meditation quotes by MaAnna Stephenson, author of The Sage Age --We are moving from the age of information to the age of vibration --Science and intuitive wisdom. All ways of knowing are viable and valuable --The body is an energetic system --The heart's magnetic field is much larger than the mind's magnetic field. Lingering in Happiness -- by Mary Oliver, from Why I wake Early, 2003 --Good meditation quotes to read during a downward meditation such as with the Water Breath meditation. It is about going deep within ourselves with the breath, into our hearts, where we can find buried treasure. After rain, after many days without rain,it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees,and the dampness there, married now to gravity,falls branch to branch, leaf to leaf, down to the ground where it will disappear-- but not, of course, vanishexcept to our eyes. The roots of the oaks will have their share, and the white threads of the grasses and the cushions of moss;a few drops, round as pearls, will enter the mole's tunnel: and soon so many small stones, buried for a thousand years,will feel themselves being touched. Heart's Gratitude --by Puran Bair One of the powerful emotions of the heart is gratitude. As soon as your heart is touched by your breath, it is softened, and a softened heart is grateful. Experience how the heart approaches life; it is profoundly grateful for all that is offered. The heart never complains; complaints come from the mind when its expectations are not met. The heart that is open accepts all that is given and gives all it contains. Something Big is Coming --by Rumi Something big is coming.It’s still a secret, but arriving everywhere.The atmosphere is charged with longing and searching.The pilgrims and the mystery-lovers know.They are gathering nowThe sound of prayer drifts across the dawn.It’s Muslim, Jew, ChristianAll mingledAll religionsAll this singingOne Song. The differences are just illusion and vanity.The sunlight looks a little different on this wallThan it does on that.And a lot different on this other one.But it’s still one light.We have borrowed these clothesThese time and place personalitiesFrom a Light.And when we praise,We’re pouring them back in. The One --More quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan This is a prayer or invocation meant to be said at the beginning of a meditation. It reflects what he called the Unity Of Religious Ideals. The Sufi, says Inayat Khan, sees the truth in every religion. Yet the Sufi's true temple, the true mosque, is the human heart, in which the divine Beloved lives. Towards the One. The perfection of love, harmony, and beauty. The only being. United with all the illuminated souls, who form the embodiment of the Master, the spirit of guidance. The nature of love --by Inayat Khan The purpose of meditation --by Puran Bair The purpose of meditation, after all, is to experience reality and incorporate it into ourselves. Collect the Pieces --by Jelaluddin Rumi This poem describes the need to create a center which collects the attention. In this center is our real identity. The gold of your intelligenceis scattered over many clippings and bitsof wanting. Bring them all togetherin one place. How else can I stamp it? Think how a great city concentratesaround a point. Damascus or Samarkand.Grain by grain, collect the pieces. The Beloved then becomes food and water,lamp and helper, dessert and wine.Many-ness is confusion and intellectual talk. Peace Comes --by Inayat Khan These meditation quotes illuminate a basic principle of Heart Rhythm Meditation. Peace comes when self is in harmony with the rhythm of the heart. This is accomplished in silent meditation by entering into the life-stream in the heart. If there is any form of concentration to be used in meditation, it consists in first getting into the rhythm of the heart, by watching the heartbeats, feeling them and harmonizing with them. Then one centers all feeling in the physical heart and out of feeling selects love, and out of love, Divine Love. The Heart is a Candle Waiting to be Lit --by Rumi Feeling the Heartbeat -- Meditation quotes by Puran Bair, Living from the Heart Here we have Bair speaking about feeling the heartbeat , which is one of the very unique aspects of Heart Rhythm Meditation, and which really separates it from any other type of meditation. The experience of feeling the heartbeat is a major accomplishment in inner awareness. You will have gained a lifelong asset, a tool you can apply to your personal development and accomplishments in life. You'll be able to rely upon an experience that few people believe is possible but that is not a fantasy, nor supernatural. Learning Heart Rhythm Meditation can benefit everyone. It's for businesspeople, educators, artists, designers, scientists, homemakers, and managers. It is a technique that you can make your own and apply to the fulfillment of your life as you desire. It doesn't take you out of the world; it helps you be effective as yourself, in concert with the world. To Be -- Meditation Quotes from E.E. Cummings Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to be. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you are a lot of other people: but the moment you are being, you're nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself-- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting... Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Pretty Love Poems
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