Quotes About Meditation

It requires something extraordinary for any of us to really get to a true and connected relatedness to our breath, and the impact of it on our bodies, energy, and movement. As

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. —Zen mantra

Jazz closed his eyes.

When I'm with other people, I usually don't think about it. Sometimes, it catches me off-guard, but I usually don't. When I'm alone, it's all I can think about.

I really love peace and quiet.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

It would do the world good if every man in it would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Away from people, who blunt the edges of his personality: away from books and magazines, which give him his thinking pre-digested: away on a long walk, where he could face the world with a naked mind and compel himself to think some things through by himself. Most of the world's progress has come out of periods of such loneliness.

In olden days, when towns were more scattered, distances greater, and life less complex, men were accustomed to be alone for hours and even days, and could stand it. The modern man must be talking, or he must be reading, or he must be playing: anything lest by accident he be left alone for a little time and compelled to think.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Temple of Suma— hearing the unblown flute in the deep shade of trees sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami

Seduto in silenzio, senza fare nulla, arriva la primavera e l'erba cresce da sola.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

dozing on horseback smoke form the tea-fires drifts to the moon

on this mountain sorrow...tell me about it digger of wild yams

Try thinking more if just for your own sake

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

When at a loss about something, go and take counsel by yourself. For in the midst of shouting, the advantageous course is not to be seen, but as one reasons with oneself, it shines out clear.