Quotes About Meditation

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

Baptists don't spend their time thinking about reality.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift-logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

I allowed silence to accumulate while I got my impressiveness together

Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect

My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking

Despite some initial skepticism about what our colleagues and patients might say if we suggested we were considering meditation as a preventive approach to depression, we decided to take a closer look. We soon discovered that the combination of Western cognitive science and Eastern practices was just what is needed to break the cycle of recurrent depression, in which we tend to go over and over what went wrong or how things are not the way we want them to be.