Quotes About Meditation

You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, til they take root in our personal experience.

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Now I make it a point to go for a walk for an hour every day without my phone or anything else that could distract me. I let my thoughts float and find unexpected connections. I found that, precisely because I give my

But when you practice moving at a speed that is compatible with human nature—and you build that into your daily life—you begin to train your attention and focus. "That's why those disciplines make you smarter.

Stress isn't something imposed on us. It's something we impose on ourselves." Stress is a feeling. Stress is a series of thoughts. If you just learn how to think differently—to quiet down your rattling thoughts—your stress will melt away. So you just need to learn to meditate. Your stress comes from a failure to be mindful.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

It's not so much what happens in those fifteen minutes—Rachel has come to feel that "you're planting seeds during the meditation, [and] it flowers spontaneously during your day, and your life.

It's easier to find serenity through meditation when you haven't just lost your job and you aren't wondering how you're going to avoid being evicted next Tuesday.

Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

On all the peaks lies peace.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Laisse le grand monde aller son train sonore, nous autres nicherons ici en silence.

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.

Beautify your breath - beautify your life.