Quotes About Meditation

What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.

You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.

You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island or something where I'm on the beach. Something like that where I can sort of at least try to escape and try to just release my mind into that place that I want to be in, into my relaxing place.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

I start my day with a hot water and lemon routine. I meditate. And I take my problems lightly, like my mother always said: treat them like helium balloons and let them go. I devour a lot of books to feed my mind.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Religion has been a huge part of my life.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

When I write, I don't like to be around any humans.

You never can stay enough humbled.

The gift of Dharma surpasses all gifts. The taste of Dharma surpasses all tastes. The delight in Dharma surpasses all delights. The destruction of craving conquers all suffering.

Doing no evil, Engaging in what's skillful, And purifying one's mind: This is the teaching of the buddhas.

One who delights in the ending of craving Is a disciple of the Fully Awakened One.

Vigilant and absorbed in meditation One attains abundant happiness.

And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.