Quotes About Meditation

It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.

but he does not want to talk about it, he wants a stillness at the end of it.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

I sat on the air above it and looked down on its uninhabitable beauty.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...

There is an exercise in a book I read by Pema Chödrön, an American woman who became a Buddhist nun, where you sit and concentrate on that which is overwhelming you and ask this energy, this thing, to overwhelm you totally; to consume you. At the point of total consumption, then you ask how many others are feeling this same exact thing at the same exact time and you ask to join their energy. I have found this to be the most healing and compassionate exercise.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It's just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.

She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.

to settle into silence, to trust what was or what could be.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.