Quotes About Meditation

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.