Quotes About Meditation

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.