Quotes About Meditation

Loquor enim de docto homine et erudito, cui vivere est cogitare

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

As I gazed rather intently at the earth my grandfather said: How long will your thoughts continue to dwell upon the earth?

Il me semble que cette méditation anticipée des malheurs humains produit presque le même effet que la guérison obtenue avec le temps, sinon que, dans le premier cas, c'est le raisonnement qui guérit, et dans le second, la nature ; mais on comprend l'essentiel, à savoir que le mal tenu pour le plus grand de tous n'est jamais si grand qu'il puisse détruire la vie heureuse.

A wise man's life is all one preparation for death.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

One detaches oneself. One describes.

I sit in the chair and think about the word chair. It can also mean the leader of a meeting. It can also mean a mode of execution. It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh. None of these facts has any connection with the others. These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself.

Prayer is wanting. Jesus, Jesus he says, but he's not praying to Jesus, he's praying to you, not to your body or your face but to the space you hold at the centre, which is the shape of the universe. Empty.

The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe.

Arms up in the air now; let's pretend we're trees.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

When I start feeling shaky I lie down, expecting nothing, and it arrives, washing over me in a wave of black vacancy

I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.

Fallow state, the Gardeners would say. They used that diagnosis for a wide range of conditions, from depression to post-traumatic stress to being permanently stoned. The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe.

All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing.

he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about.

Me estiro, pues, dentro de la habitación, bajo el ojo de escayola del techo, detrás de las cortinas blancas, entre las sábanas, y me deslizo dentro de mi propio tiempo, abandonando el ritmo que nos marcan. Aunque esto también forma parte del ritmo, y yo no estoy fuera de él.

Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

You think too much,' said Ellis.

He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.