Quotes About Meditation

The true work, it is done from within. The little grey cells—remember always the little grey cells, mon ami." -- Hercule Poirot

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.

The weapon lay on the floor - a bronze figure about two feet high, the base of it stained and wet. Mr. Satterthwaite bent over it curiously. "A Venus," he said softly. "So he was struck down by Venus." He found food for poetic meditation in the thought.

I saw," said Poirot. "With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body. One leans back and closes the eyes—

In the heart of the desert or in the heart of a crowd—what does it matter? The inmost core of man is solitary—alone. I have always been —a lonely soul....

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

La connaissance poetique nait dans la grand silence de la connaissance scientifique

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

Deep breathing initiates the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest-and-relax state.

The mind is a rascal monkey, Always jumping from thought to thought. It makes us fear the future, And drags us to a past that we forgot.

True Prayer is not just Talking to God But rather Listening to Him.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don't get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.

It is the high value that one gives to one's own thoughts that is the main obstacle to silent awareness. Wisely removing the importance that one gives to thinking, and realizing the greater accuracy of silent awareness, opens the door to inner silence.

Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world. Sometimes

it's not the sound that disturbs you; it's you who disturbs the sound.

The quieter you become the more happiness you have.

it's the nature of the mind to be restless.

If we want to go further, then instead of being silently aware of whatever comes into the mind, we choose silent present-moment awareness of just one thing.

The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.