Quotes About Meditation

Look in different places is as food For our thoughts. Kijken op verschillende plaatsen is als voedsel voor onze gedachten.

The second phrase was gaman, which means to find some physical practice such as meditation, calligraphy, or the making of art that would help one persevere in the face of what seemed unbearable.

in peace, God is awake.

so calm our minds that fears may cease, and rested bodies wake in peace.

Thomas à Kempis: "Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.

The ride to the funeral home went quicker than I expected, especially given the lack of conversation during the ride. I knew why I was silent. I had more to think about than any twenty people usually did in an entire lifetime.

Orleans." Silently, we all took a seat at the

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

Iwatch from where I sit on the craggy cliffs of Ballyhock to the waves crashing on the beach. Strong.

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not the world but the eyes that look… To form the intention of new awareness is already to transform and be transformed.

those who follow their own breath will come to know both Being's nature and their own.

Free verse follows 'the breath of a thought where it leads'.

I moved my chair into sun I sat in the sun The way hunger is moved when called fasting

The peace and equanimity of the Buddha comes from an acceptance of the transitory nature of life.

In meditation practice, we learn to let go of the thoughts and fantasies that block the direct intuitive experience of who and what we really are. Our constant mental activity is what maintains the illusion of a separate self, and this effort makes us weary.

Mara and his daughters are familiar to anyone who practises meditation; the revelation of dark repressed fears, barely remembered fragments of memory, doubts, erotic fantasy and foremost, the desire to get back to familiar ground.

There is much misunderstanding about who or what the Buddha was. The word Buddha literally means "awakened one".

Meditation practice is not concerned with perfecting concentration, or getting rid of thoughts, or trying to be peaceful. The practice merely provides a space in which we can relate simply with our body, our breath and the environment. Thoughts simply occur within a larger space. In that simple situation, we bring our attention back again and again from fantasy to the simple reality of being in the present moment.

Koan study is specifically designed to short-circuit the whole intellectual process and experience reality directly.

I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

Buddhist mantras are deliberately deep yet superficially meaningless - to take your mind off things

He pushed the coverlet halfway down his body and crossed his arms behind his head. Linc stared at the overhead fixture, his new best friend for the last several days--he'd actually felt like talking to it a few times.