Quotes About Meditation

Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.

I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

I'm down for indefinitely chilling as long as I'm not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The reason people get lost in thought is that it's unfamiliar territory.

I think, therefore I am... not related to you.

He was looking into that strange place, the middle distance, the most mysterious, human, and rich of all distances.

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep. Looking into a Chinese mirror that's a little clouded.

quanto mais coisas vos entrarem na cabeça, tanto mais espaço fica para outras.

I take pleasure in tea, appreciating it with my spirit and therefore cannot explain why.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

One should count each day a separate life.

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.