Quotes About Meditation

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

To the Reader" As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian are watching the generations of leaves, and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.

Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself.

You don't have to go on a quest to "find" silence-it's a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain. The question is, how much silence can you bear? How deep are you willing to go below surface living to reconnect with who you truly are?

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. What do my five fingers represent? Yogini smiled at him, and said. Your body, as well as everything in this Universe, is composed of five elements, Deodatta. Your five fingers represent these five elements. Your thumb represents Agni or Fire, Index finger for Vayu or Air, middle finger for Gagan or Space, ring finger for Prithvi or Earth, and little finger for Aap or water.

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

Faith is lean and ready to starve unless it is fed with continual meditation on God's promises.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.