Quotes About Meditation

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Relax, and empty your mind and heart of all thoughts. Breathe in gently and deeply, so that the incoming cosmic energy fills the energy center at your abdomen.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Buddhism is a beautiful philosophy, but above all, it is about action.

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

And to wish to be alone, or to drink alone, or to do anything else alone, is the first step to the supernatural: which, in its turn, is the first step to the stake or the crucifix.

Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

When he closed his eyes his mind began to roam, and only with his eyes closed did he not feel others watching and observing him. With his eyes closed, there was freedom and he could wander.

The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...

When I closed my eyes, the world was filled with sound.

The gentle patter of the rain was punctuated by the scratching of pencil on paper.

When I stand here in front of the cabinet, my heart feels like a silkworm slumbering in its cocoon.

När jag blundade lyckades jag få en starkare medvetenhet om tomrummet som uppstått i min kropp. Det var fyllt av fullständigt genomskinligt vatten och inte det minsta lilla minnesfragment fanns kvar där. Hans händer rörde idogt om i det vattnet, men det enda som kom upp var små bubblor. Bubblor som genast sprack alldeles ljudlöst.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scraps of thought refused to cohere.

Sarashina Nikki

You should strike at the moon in the water.

It is the Mind, That is the Mind, Confusing the Mind. Do not leave the Mind, O Mind, To the Mind.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

First you must be calm, then your mind can be steady. Once your mind is steady, then you are at peace. Only when you are at peace, are you able to think and finally gain.

the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.

Is there a life outside oneself? Is there a reality outside oneself?