Quotes About Meditation

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

In your mind there is a diamond sword. If you want to understand yourself, take it and cut off good and bad, long and short, coming and going, high and low, God and Buddha. Cut off all things.

Write a letter, refresh your habit.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance

Only when there is absolute submission can the soul ascend through dance

Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.

It is often very helpful to use creative visualization in picturing yourself as a more relaxed, open person, flowing, living in the here and now, and always connected with your inner essence.

Focus on It Often Bring your idea or mental picture to mind often, both in quiet meditation periods, and also casually throughout the day when you happen to think of it. In this way it becomes an integrated part of your life, and it becomes more of a reality for you. Focus on it clearly, yet in a light, relaxed way. It's important not to feel like you are striving too hard for it or putting an excessive amount of energy into it — that tends to hinder rather than help.

Try to picture yourself as clearly as you can, and think of giving love to yourself, the same way you would to anyone else you care for.

Almost any form of meditation will eventually take you to an experience of your spiritual source, or your higher self.

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Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Even stories need a chance to sleep.

She made herself take two deep-rooted yoga breaths, smiled back, and thought of men in breeches.

A cuántos malos tendría que matar? Su número, como el espacio, infinito. Pero si mato el espíritu del odio, todos mis enemigos perecen al mismo tiempo.

I'm not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.

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