Quotes About Meditation

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

There is nothing boring in life except ourselves.

The essence of life is in remembering God.

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.