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Quotes About Meditation

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
~ Blaise Pascal
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
~ Martin Heidegger
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
Belief is thought at rest.
~ Larry Harvey
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
~ Honore de Balzac
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~ Mason Cooley
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
~ Orlando Bloom
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~ Sai Baba
The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Night is the mother of thoughts.
~ John Florio
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
~ Dave Chappelle
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
~ John Fletcher
There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.
~ Gautham Menon
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
~ Thomas Keating
Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts.
~ Tyler Henry
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I have a really hard time falling asleep. I have a lot of thoughts running through my head.
~ Rose
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
~ William Inge
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
~ David Sedaris
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
~ Dwight Yoakam