Quotes About Meditation

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

As you think, so shall you become.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.