Quotes About Meditation

We said nothing for several minutes. Our minds weighed like ripened fruit on the branch. When one is confronted by the mirror, the spirit trembles.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Like mirror script, to read requires reflection, asks us to see ourselves holding the page.

Le silence est une musique qui parle à l'âme.

What else can we do but garden our shadows while far away the universe burns and vanishes.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

Lascia qui il rumore del mondo, per tornare al suono dei tuoi pensieri.

brutally air-conditioned library

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

philosopher named Descartes

I am constantly telling my own story to myself, and these days that's about all the narrative flow I can handle.

She worked diligently to develop her understanding of breath; for she knew that with breath she could create a world. She imagined herself breathing life into the glass and, with every week that passed, Sei came closer to realizing the loveliness of the objects that she could picture in her imagination.

He was a monk in an order of one.

I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude, Where everything I touch is turned into prayer:

Let my soul in its journey into you Never rest anywhere.

He felt as if he were a character in Henry James; he began to suspect he was to be that man to whom nothing whatsoever was to happen.

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

The weight room has always been a place for me where I could go to be relaxed. It's my sanctuary of sorts.

Whether you're praying, meditating, you're getting silent, relaxing your mind... and you definitely want to train hard - in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.