Quotes About Meditation

POLYHYMNIA was the Muse of hymns, of sacred music, dance, poetry, and rhetoric as well as—slightly randomly one might think—agriculture, pantomime, geometry, and meditation. I suppose today we would call her "the Muse of mindfulness.

These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.

3) if you wish, you can shift consciousness itself more directly by directly increasing the apertures of your sensory gates, by opening the doors of perception themselves more widely. You can do this a number of ways, hallucinogens are one of them meditation is another habituation to constantly feeling the touch of the world upon you is another

I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.

Quiet people has the loudest minds.

Quiet people have the loudest minds

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

In these silences something may rise

The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Try not to think of a polar bear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, and you will see the cursed thing come to mind every minute.

Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off.. But not forever.

Yoga and books are the only way out.

Praying is the time to ask and meditating is the time to listen.

Sometimes, You need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.

Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so.

Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind?

Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.

No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!

Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures.