Quotes About Meditation

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking.

Where there is no experience, I believe the wise man is silent.

That was the trouble with war, the Hawk thought detachedly:

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

To think is not always to see.

everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely. If we gardeners can, in the same spirit, put our heels to the shovel, kneel before a trench holding tender roots, and then wait three years for an edible incarnation of the spring equinox, who's to make the call between ridiculous and reverent?

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.

Bruce ate a mouthful of eggs and meditated. 'I wonder how many of the great heroes of history would turn out to be a slow runner, if you ever investigated the circumstances.

moment, and began muttering to himself.

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. —Bash?

there are qualities of devotion, and celebration, and meditation, qualities that are necessary concomitants to a life worth living. Ginza-yu

But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear. For in the unhurried rituals of scrubbing and soaking, and in the perspective of profound relaxation that can only be derived from immersion in water the meek might describe as scalding, there are qualities of devotion, and celebration, and meditation, qualities that are necessary concomitants to a life worth living.

You can sit for a long time with the history of man like a stone in your hand. The stillness, the pure light, encourage it.

A very common technique is simply to open the Bible at random—either with a particular concern in mind or hoping to learn whatever God "wants to tell me today"—and to read the first passage that strikes your eye

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.