Quotes About Meditation

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

I've been going for walks.  Shore of the sea, accompanied by the most somber thoughts. And if I throw myself from the top of a cliff?

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

He is contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.

A book is a postponed suicide.

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

Nothing ever happens to me," She reflected.

how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.