Quotes About Meditation

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One haiku hints at both the joys and sadness of a solitary monk on a pilgrimage in the winter: Even in my empty begging bowl A piece of hail.

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's … about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

We all feel shame when we're sitting on the cushion and stuff pops up in our head.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.

through every cloud God wants me to unlearn something. He wants me to simplify things, to put other things and other people aside until it is just me and Him. He doesn't want me to do anything more, He wants me to sit at His feet and listen to His voice. When once again He is the Father and I am the child, our relationship is restored.

Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.

Eternal Friend, help me to be thoughtful and to resist committing acts that are evil in Your eyes. Whatever sins I have committed, please blot them out in Your abundant kindness and spare me suffering or harmful illnesses. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart find acceptance before You, Eternal Friend, who protects and frees me. Forgiveness

So he just sits here staring into his beer.

Angus Stevenson

This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

A dark room with some low-level whale music and a flat bed and a woman pulling your shoulder back and forth is a happy place.

I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my closet is a form of meditation. I pick whatever I feel is right for the day.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.