Quotes About Meditation

When you have got quite alone, sit down and be lonely…fold your hands in your lap, and be still. Do not try to think anything… by and by, it may be, you will begin to know something of nature. Nature will soon speak to you, or not until, as Henri Vaughn says, some veil be broken in you

in order to feel, it is necessary that the mind should rest upon the matter, whatever it is.

It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking.

it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

He thought of nothing he could say.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

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Today, at the stupa, it occurs to me that this low-level ambient fear constitutes a decent working definition of the human: A human being is someone who, having lived awhile, becomes terrified and, having become terrified, deeply craves an end to the fear.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We are not entangled in our own body, we are entangled in our mind. I

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

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the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.

Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

My workout is my meditation.

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

I try to get a workout for myself in before I work with my clients. I do this to center myself.

We made a lot of videos about home workouts, the food we were having etc., and trying to motivate ourselves and others. But when a few people in my building tested positive for COVID-19, we got anxious. I was feeling low, and that's when Debina and I started meditating.

My faith is in God. If it's a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.