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Quotes About Meditation

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.
~ Susie Bright
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
~ T. S. Eliot
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
~ William Faulkner
If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.
~ Yuanwu Keqin
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
~ Eva Burrows
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I'm very happy when I have time to just be.
~ Gary Kraftsow
Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
~ Georgia Douglas Johnson
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
~ Henri Nouwen
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
~ Hermann Hesse
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
~ Jane McGonigal
Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!
~ Jennifer Aniston
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
~ Jim Hodges
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
~ John Keats
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
~ Jon Foreman
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
~ Jules Verne