Quotes About Meditation

Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City...

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

The Camino is a form of extended walking meditation, a practice in many traditions. "Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet," explains the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.[14] "We don't need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.

Buddha spoke very frequently about the impermanence (in Sanskrit, anitya) of everything.

When you spend serious time and effort focused on transcendental things, it puts your little world into proper context and takes the focus off yourself. Most of our days, I am thinking me, me, me. It's like watching the same dreary television show, over and over, all day long. It's so boring. Faith forces me into the cosmos, to consider the source of truth, the origin of life, and the good of others. This focus brings refreshment and relief. A

Not everyone would, but you would—I know this because no one reading this far into this book is a slacker about self-development. Well, your spiritual development is that important. You must make the time by scheduling your meditation, prayer, reading, and practice. Every day.

As a Quaker, I aspire to be a pacifist.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Quality is the Buddha.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.

I like peace and quiet. It's like I'm a loner.

A quiet mind cureth all.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

I want a bit of peace and quiet in my life after burning the candle at both ends.

When I write I find a quiet place.

In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.