Quotes About Meditation

I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.

I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.

I am not a warrior.

Solitude is the companion of warriors.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.

If he was going to figure out his life, he had a feeling he needed more time on his knees, lifting up holy hands without doubt.

John had no desire to move but to just be. The rain seemed to do more than water the earth tonight. It seemed to water him.

I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you.

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, Words, words, shuffling around in my head.

The mind is off duty but the body is open.

Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics.

Ryder has appeared in my dreams once in a while, and in my thoughts a little more often through the last five years (...)

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy...

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The only journey is the one within.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

If each person attains inner peace through meditation and develops love for all, it will not be long before peace prevails on our planet.

The result of meditation and ethical living is that our soul becomes like a pure spotless glass, reflecting the light of the God. Then, the light burning within us shines its sacred flame of bliss and love to light our pathway to the Divine

Meditation enables us to make our connection with the spark of the Divine and reunite our individual fire with the Eternal Flame of the Divine.

If you don't go within you go without.