Quotes About Meditation

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.

he seemed to be thinking at him.

A journal is not a diary, where you record the weather and the engagements of the day. A journal is a notebook in which one can, hopefully, be ontological.

read a poem every day and think about it

single night

They are just thoughts, like anyone has thoughts, that's all.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a period of more or less conscious meditation, then the first draft, and finally the revision, which may be simply 'pencil work' as John O'Hara calls it — that is, minor changes in wording — or may lead to writing several drafts and what amounts to a new work.

I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

A sure success is the grace to mediate on the scriptures.

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

To consciously meditate is to lose influence over the outer world.

Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.

Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions.

The SECRET to unravelling Life's MYSTERIES is thinking.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

Success is in the big things.Happiness is in the small things.Meditation is in Nothing.And, God is in everything

The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work.

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.