Quotes About Meditation

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

All people must pray for peace.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

It's adult swim time and I'm diving in here at the shallow end.

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

The mind contains all possibilities.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.