Quotes About Meditation

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing.

It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

Be cool, my fevered brain. And it wouldn't hurt you, body, to take a tumble in the snow.

Those silent times, those times when I was one with the mountains, earth and the black stones that held fire - those times were the strength and joy of my life.

Stillness A cock crows and someone Strums a koto. Nothing's wanting. In the midst of this stillness, I'm still. Could I catch it, I'd drop That butterfly into my mouth.

Life Infinite Beyond words, this no-thingness within, Which I've become. So to remain Only one thing's needed: Zen sitting. I think, breathe with my whole body - Marvellous. The joy's so pure, It's beyond lovemaking, anything. I can see, live anywhere, everywhere. I need nothing, not even life.

how can i be nothing at all for hours and days at a time, and then suddenly create myself into a real person for ten minutes at bedtime?

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

What we call I is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church

inquietud que tan a menudo acompaña los incesantes dolores de la reflexión.

The sound of a pen scratching in the night is a holy sound.

She sometimes has panic attacks before class. Hence the meditation, sometimes supplemented with benzodiazepine.

LOL-inspiring thought: Wouldn't it

The mindfulness rage was just another distraction, he said. Of course we should be stressed, he said. We should be utterly consumed with dread. Mindful meditation might help a person face drowning with equanimity, but it would do absolutely nothing to right the Titanic, he said.

There is so much writ upon the parchment of leaves, So much of beauty blown upon the winds, I can but fold my hands and sink my knees In the leaf pages. —James Still

We live with – and within – a gap between knowledge and wisdom. It is time philosophers, and everyone else, started to try and think about that gap. Maybe more than our personal peace of mind is at stake.

Wenigstens eine kleine Weile lang mußte ich, jedem Anspruch entrückt, in Frieden mit mir selbst sprechen können, ohne daß irgendjemand mich dabei unterbrach.