Quotes About Meditation

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

No, said Arthur, no, he added thoughtfully. No, he added again, even more thoughtfully. What? he said at last.

He lay still and quiet. He absorbed the enveloping darkness, slowly relaxed his limbs from end to end, eased and regulated his breathing, gradually cleared his mind of all thought, closed his eyes, and was completely incapable of getting to sleep.

She wish she knew what it was she was trying not to think about

they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.

thinking is not really something they are cut out for.

He thought he could hear the hum of the universe as he sat there. The airwaves of God, maybe, that kept the whole lunatic world somehow on track.

Here's the thing about darkness: It turns the mind inward.

I say 'Uhmm...' a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it's a CPU word. It means you're assembling data in your head - spooling.

I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling.

Sólo el individuo que vive en soledad es una criatura sujeta a leyes profundas y si sale al empezar la mañana, o mira hacia la tarde que está vibrante de vida y comprende lo que le rodea, entonces todo se desprende de él, como si de un cadáver se tratara, aunque siga en la plenitud de la vida.

Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...

were not shouting anything, just silently

like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things.

The phrase, not dissimilar in sound from the mantra, got tangled up with his meditating, preventing him from achieving either peace

until he was standing alone before them.

In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.

Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret

Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation done incorrectly is a perfect mirror of how you are resisting the present moment, judging it, or attaching to it.

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

It's important that meditation is not seen as something that only happens when you are seated in a quiet place. Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That's the primary illusion—that there is something called "my spiritual life," and something called "my daily life." When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It's all one seamless expression of spirit.

379True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.