Quotes About Meditation

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

It's important to make time for yourself.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

…beating time along the edge of thought.

In sound's absence, silence echoes.

A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the days so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past and tomorrow is lived for today

Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.

One does not find solitude, one creates it. Solitude is created alone. I have created it. Because I decided that here was where I should be alone, that I would be alone to write books. It happened this way. I was alone in this house. I shut myself in—of course, I was afraid. And then I began to love it.

une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)

Cuando los cálculos complicados resultan falsos, cuando los mismos filósofos no tienen ya nada que decirnos, es excusable volverse hacia el parloteo fortuito de las aves, o hacia el lejano contrapeso de los astros.

La meditación de la muerte no enseña a morir y no facilita la partida; pero ya no es facilidad lo que busco.

Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.

Todavía un instante miremos juntos las riberas familiares, los objetos que sin duda no volveremos a ver… Tratemos de entrar en la muerte con los ojos abiertos…