Quotes About Meditation

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

The temple bell stops But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

How come you're staring at your drink?

What is going on now?" What is your body saying? Then

If this happens, then the listeners' ears will shut off and they might start daydreaming about

What is contemplation? Says Aquinas: "Contemplation regards the simple act of gazing on truth.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

I realize how utterly amazing it is that we're all able as humans to go about our daily lives without constantly obsessing over the fact that each of us will almost certainly be in a sterile bed someday, medicated and slowly dying. This officially marks the most depressing thing that has ever crossed my mind.

Wisdom speaks with a silent tongue.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Tell her about the screaming, Janelle said. Because I can't. The screaming? Stevie repeated. The other morning he started something called 'screaming meditation', Nate said. Guess what happens in screaming meditation? Did you guess screaming? For fifteen minutes? Because that's what happens in screaming meditation. Fifteen. Minutes. Outside. At five in the morning. Do you know what happens when someone screams outside at a remote location in the mountains, especially after a...

With a drowning kind of quiet

I opened it the way we used to open Hafez, closing our eyes, asking our question and letting our finger rest somewhere at random. It opened to the page in the middle of Burt Norton,' beginning with the lines At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor/fleshless./ Neither from not toward; at the still point,there the dance/is.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

Breath is the king of mind.

Meditation is oneness, when there is no longer time, sex, or country. The moment when, after you have concentrated on doing a pose (or anything else) perfectly, you hold it and then forget everything, not because you want to forget but because you are concentrated: this is meditation.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.