Quotes About Meditation

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought - sense that you are separate from thought.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

Read to refresh your mind.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.