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Quotes About Meditation

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.
~ Deepak Chopra
If you want more time, spend more time in the Timeless.
~ Derek Rydall
I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.
~ Donna Karan
When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think.
~ Doug Sahm
The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
~ Eberhard Weber
Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
~ Anne Lamott
Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.
~ John Dos Passos
I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.
~ Lewis Pugh
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.
~ Norman Cousins
The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.
~ Zoe McLellan
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
How sublime Upon a time-blanchÂ'd cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.
~ Robert Montgomery
The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.
~ Roger Housden
Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
~ Russell Simmons
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.
~ Samuel I. Prime
No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
~ Sarah Kay
You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
~ Shirley MacLaine
It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
~ Stephan Jenkins
For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.
~ Stephanie Ellis
The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.
~ Susan Sontag
Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!
~ Swami Vivekananda