Quotes About Meditation

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I'm a very deep thinker, and I find it very hard to switch off at night, so I usually have to put on an episode of 'Friends' or listen to some music before bed.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

I'm constantly thinking.

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.