Quotes About Meditation

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

What your soul needs is a check up.

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.