Quotes About Meditation

uninflected silence

Do you ever think about the rocks? he said. How does that go? Maybe they are alive and their hearts beat once every thousand years and they only need to take a breath every five hundred.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

I constantly work to control my thoughts and my emotions.

as you ponder your choice.

When you are calm, you think better.

Most of the class was in deep thought.

That time alone with myself, having nothing to do, was priceless.

Very few people have the luxury of at least one year to sit and just think and be with yourself.

so I could think straight and become whole again.

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.

If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep woods, and I'd look up into the sky - up - up - up - into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel the prayer.

Still Anne said nothing, several times over.

I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed

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There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

But once in a while, even if nobody mentioned one, the thought of women entered his head all on its own, and once it came it usually tneded to stay for several hours, filling his noggin like a cloud of gnats. Of course, a cloud of gnats was nothing in comparison to a cloud of Gulf coast mosquitoes, so the thought of women was not that bothersome, but it was a thought Pea would rather not have in his head.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

figured Godwin

Crowded up in a room, it was difficult for her to keep herself—on the grass, with the sky far above, it was easy.