Quotes About Meditation

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

The more alone I get, the louder the world becomes.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that we are linked with God.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.

Well, thinking about what's not supposed to require thinking, that is philosophy, no?

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Concedimi la serenità di accettare le cose che non posso cambiare, il coraggio per cambiare quelle che posso, e la saggezza per riconoscerne la differenza

To sense energy accurately, learn to get quiet, to step outside your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and to become a blank screen so that you can receive impressions.

To sense energy accurately, learn to get quiet, to step outside your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and to become a blank screen so that you can receive impressions. Learn to know who you are. Just as you can pay attention to the sounds in a room and nothing else, so can you pay attention to the telepathic and unseen energy that is also there.

Take time to daydream, fantasize, relax, and think about what you want to create. Practice thinking in new, unlimited ways.

the solace of minutia

windows. What he thought

In fact, whenever Ben thought about it, his worry would slowly evaporate. But when he didn't think about it, it niggled and made him need to think about it again.

The wisdom of the Tath?gata is not to be measured by the yardstick of human intelligence, nor limited by the cravings of the human heart.

All intending students of Buddhism would do well to remember, however, that the heart of the Dharma, the spiritual essence that underlies and interpenetrates all doctrinal formulations, metaphysical disciplines, and aesthetic expressions, will be revealed, not in proportion to the bulk of our scholastic equipment, but only to the extent to which we have cultivated right motive.

Foundations of Mindfulness found in the Satipa??h?na Sutta of the Majjhima Nik?ya?