Quotes About Meditation

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

Even if you only meditate for ten minutes a day, it is ten minutes well spent and, in the long term, can give you the wisdom to see that the answers to our problems lie within us.

The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Meditation helps you to learn about character and mind. It relieves you of the tension you have gone through.

As you do Pilates, use your breath to draw your mind into the present and whisk the tension out of your body.

I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'.