Quotes About Meditation

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life's journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.