Quotes About Meditation

Only when you have experienced the dark side of mindfulness, will you meet loneliness.

not all your brain goes to sleep when you do. It leaves a night watch on duty, and often the night watch can find answers that your waking brain missed.

La sagesse procurait rarement des réponses, elle se contentait de redéfinir les questions.

Señor, enséñanos a orar".

The day you decide to lock yourself in your prayer closet to spend some quality time with the Lord in prayer — that is the day you will enter Heaven's classroom here on earth with the Holy Spirit as your Teacher.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

peace of mind is our natural heritage and that we can awaken this potential within us at any time.

The secret is this: monkey mind feeds in darkness, it shrinks under the light of observation.

There are at least four essential elements composing the foundation of the enlightenment process: purification, concentration, effort, and mastery.

Every meditator carries an enormous amount of baggage in the form of mental static. This provides fuel for noisy thought-engines that seem to be constantly running.

Sam?dhi is the state of concentrated calm resulting from meditation practice."8 In another, we find "It implies not merely equilibrium, tranquillity, and one-pointedness, but a state of intense yet effortless concentration, of complete absorption of the mind itself, of heightened and expanded awareness.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

There is no time in the mind,

Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

the garden between dawn and sunrise?

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

Everything you think about is a meditation, and you could say that the very form of your consciousness follows what you put your attention to. So Chi is really just focused attention, and it is attention, or awareness, that brings about results of whatever kind, rather than some nebulous energy or vril force. But energy is a good metaphor.