Quotes About Meditation

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

Do not lose sight of your goal. It's not the memorization itself that is important but the constant reflection on God, His character and His ways.

Cine nu mediteaz? temeinic la problema interdic?iilor ?i a obliga?iilor, atunci când acestea sunt mai pu?ine, nu va face fa??, se va sim?i pierdut, când vor fi multe.

To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats

If you can access the sense of your inherent preciousness, you can rise above shame. If you can meditate and feel equanimity, you may be able to rise above your distress.

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.

Es extraño cómo un pensamiento nos llega a veces con tanta nitidez y fuerza que ya no puede mediar nada entre él y su cumplimiento".

Living in the answer, while forgetting the question that gave birth to it, will cause the answer to become mechanical, habitual, or dispirited. Conversely, living only in the question can lead to confusing or debilitating uncertainty and ambiguity. We need both.

Dr. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum

The salarians had a saying: the mind with many secrets can never rest.

an internal form of acting, a meditation, a meditation that consciously reconnects you to all life everywhere. It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

Now is the time when all occasional things close into silence.

the ponderous ferocity of silence….

why must I exclude exclude, if everything is now and mind is matter is not everything valid is not meditation the substance of the mind as well as its practice?

should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

Jennifer, I asked, what do you ever do besides read? She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, I think.

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" said Rilke.

I entered my reading the way an echo enters a sound.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Become conscious of being conscious.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.