Quotes About Meditation

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

Yoga is a life-saver.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

Janet Erskine Stuart

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.