Quotes About Meditation

Yet their song, if not a mating call or a warning, must be what it sounds like, a brooding meditation on space, on solitude. The game.

Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

A short prayer pierces heaven.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind—this is the teaching of the Awakened One [Buddha].

Tea purifies spirit, removes anxiety and nervousness, brings ease and comfort, and is conducive to meditation.

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.

Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

I go for refuge to the Buddha.I go for refuge to the Doctrine.I go for refuge to the Order [of monks].

Give peace in our time, O Lord.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.

Making mention of thee always in my prayers.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within.

The little space within the heart is as great as this vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars; fire and lightning and winds are there; and all that now is and all that is not: for the whole universe is in Him [Atman, the Spirit] and He dwells within our heart.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.