Quotes About Meditation

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Life's true face is the skull.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

I've practiced meditation most of my life. It's better than lying around doing nothing.

Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding. But without your curiosity and questions, there is no path, no journey to be taken, even if you adopt all the forms of the tradition.

It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The