Quotes About Meditation

Master your mind and you will master your life

with a white bead

solitude was bliss for now.

Minho had taught Thomas that speaking only wasted energy, so he concentrated on his pace and his breaths.

Being holed up in here does wonders for making the brain do what it was made for.

in one of the quiet places she went to read some

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

The only way out is within.

Be mindful even if your mind is full.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

What did the Dalai Lama say when he got an electric shock? Ohm.

This book extends some original implications of mindfulness. It explores the many positive, helpful subconscious aspects of remindfulness. It suggests ways that long-term meditative retraining can help cultivate hidden, affirmative resources of our subconscious memories. Accessing these subtle processes of transformation can enable us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives. To

Do some involuntary forms of ''no-thought'' attention normally exist that can be cultivated during long-term meditative training?

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

Dogen tells us to "cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself.

We can learn to use the fire of our minds to good purpose.

Shut your eyes and see.

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

Wise leaders seek to understand how the brain reacts to stress and practise simple, almost meditative techniques to stay calm, clear and connected. They use maps, mantras and anchors to navigate their way through highly pressurized situations, both personal and professional, and to bring themselves back to the moment. In this way they and their teams stay on top of their game and on top of the situation.

When you sit in meditation, relaxed and open, everything arises, all of samsara and all of nirvana. Everything is contained within the spacious mind. Is this the Buddha? You can read many dzogchen texts which say that your own mind is the Buddha. This doesn't mean that your ego formation or your sense of self is the Buddha. Rather, within the openness of your awareness there is space for your ego, and the qualities which are arising there are held inside the infinite clarity of the mind.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.