Quotes About Meditation

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Once a day allow yourself the freedom to dream...

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.

I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

Our brains read things, just like the happy squirrel sitting on a pond.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

Can you say something about nothing?

one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks." And

The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.

What fun would it be if one didn't have to think about happiness

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Consider the horse' They considered it.

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.