Quotes About Meditation

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

William Roberts

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

He is divinely bent on meditation.

He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord, To visit him to-morrow or next day: He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation, And in no worldly suits would he be moved To draw him from his holy exercise.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close;And let us all to meditation.

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!

Your mind is tossing on the ocean.

I could be well contentTo entertain the lag-end of my lifeWith quiet hours.

For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

And the imperial votaress passed on,In maiden meditation, fancy-free.Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:It fell upon a little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,And maidens call it, Love-in-idleness.

These trees shall be my books.

The green mantle of the standing pool.

Grow like savages—as soldiers will,That nothing do but meditate on blood.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

In my mind's eye, Horatio.

Most mornings I get away, slip out the door before light, set forth on the dim, gray road, letting my feet find a cadence that softly carries me on. Nobody is up—all alone my journey begins. Some

Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.