Quotes About Meditation

Most prayers are not really questions...and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer. ...We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves...that the world is changed.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up.

The real person's breathing reaches down to their heels. The normal person's breathing in the throat

Talking to myself but I never listen.

Its been a moment since Ive done some public speaking. I find now-a-days its best to keep quiet.

The mind with many secrets can never rest.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

As you spend time with God, you'll begin to think like Him, which will allow you to pray according to His heart and will.

God is eavesdropping on us, waiting for us to speak a few words to Him.

Writing is a lonely business.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

Life is consciousness.

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?