Quotes About Meditation

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.