Quotes About Meditation

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

When I was growing up under Tom's (Tom Brown, the Tracker) watchful gaze, I often wondered why he seemed so distant and quiet so much of the time. This was why. He was stilling the chatter, quieting his mind, connecting and listening: practicing the routine of invisibility.

if you learn to listen to the silence, you'll hear more of everything else.

when we "lose our mind" and "come to our senses" in the fullest possible way, the chattering, texting, e-mailing, twittering mind will eventually quiet down and almost silence itself. This is a sacred and connected silence...It's like a deep, still pond reflecting the stars of the night sky. I believe this is the baseline for human consciousness, and I'm convinced that the birds are the best mentors in the natural world for bringing us to it.

pasidaryt mažesniam reikia daug laiko.

O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. —BUDDHA

For Buddha, attachments are like a game of roulette in which someone else spins the wheel and the game is rigged: The more you play, the more you lose. The only way to win is to step away from the table. And the only way to step away, to make yourself not react to the ups and downs of life, is to meditate and tame the mind. Although you give up the pleasures of winning, you also give up the larger pains of losing.

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

tried not to think about it, the more he actually thought about it. And the more he actually thought

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine

When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom.

DURATION OF SILENCE

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

You will be forced away from the warmth of people's homes to dwell by yourself in lonely places.

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.