Quotes About Meditation

A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached.

I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

If you want to grow spiritually, the place to start is with God.

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

There is no better way to live God's way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?