Quotes About Meditation

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Meditation has been very, very helpful. You know, even if it's just 5 minutes a day.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful.

I think it's very important to find something that you do that helps center you.

I'm sort of a hermit.

I've always been kind of a hermit.

I love to be a hermit.

I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays.

Sometimes... I'll just stand there... in the white room... and say stuff. I'm creating high-quality content.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

I've never thought much about energy, or a higher power, or the driving force behind someone's purpose.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.

I run hills anytime I really have to think.

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then can you use the force. You have to enter a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cogitation, relax, stop thinking Ã¢â'¬Â¦ let yourself drift Ã¢â'¬Â¦ free Ã¢â'¬Â¦ free Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Relax!" old Ben urged him. "Be free. You're trying to use your eyes and ears. Stop predicting and use the rest of your mind.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking.

When some pray, they lift heavy thoughts from the ground, only to drop them on it again; others send up their prayers in living shapes, this or that, the nearest likeness to each. All live things were thoughts to begin with, and are fit therefore to be used by those that think. When one says to the great Thinker:—'Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!' that is a prayer—a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.

he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. Like weary waves thought follows upon thought, But the still depth beneath is all thine own, And there thou mov'st in paths to us unknown.