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Quotes About Meditation

Now and again an echo of Chopin's music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always think of you and lose myself in meditating about possibilities.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I love to lose myself for a while.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
flee, my friend, into thy solitude! i see thee defended with the noise of great men, and stung all over with the stings of little ones. Admirably do forest and rock know how to be silent with thee. resemble again the tree which thou lovest
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What language will such a spirit speak when it talks to itself alone?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This book is intended for calm readers.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The quick, daily glance into the half darkness became an integral part of his life.
~ Fritz Leiber
In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tremendous!
~ Fulton J. Sheen
relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-
~ Fulton Sheen
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
~ Gabriel Marcel
el ruido no necesita la lectura.
~ Gabriel Zaid
My yoga teacher says to think of your thoughts like skateboarders passing through our line of vision; just watch them go by, don't try to follow them down the street.
~ Gabrielle Bell
Gnomic, "!chocH !choe echachoed dh zchoaK !chocH
~ Gail Carson Levine
Please also feel free to read this case a few times as it may take a while to sink in.
~ Garrett Sutton
I need a long, cold winter.
~ John Rzeznik
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
~ Owen Feltham
If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.
~ Govinda
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
~ Zhuangzi
I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
~ Chrysippus