Quotes About Meditation

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

At night I sit in my room and read the Bible. In the distance, the sea roars. Then I lay awake for a long time and think of the quiet, pale man from Nazareth.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.

whatever we frequently think of and ponder, that will become the inclination of our minds.

If we try to practice meditation without the foundation of goodwill to ourselves and others, it is like trying to row across a river without first untying the boat; our efforts, no matter how strenuous, will not bear fruit. We need to practice and refine our ability to live honestly and with integrity.

All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.

Unless a practice cools the fires of greed, aversion, and ignorance it is worthless.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

Close your eyes and see.

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

Open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Taittinger pondered, but he was well aware that no amount of pondering had yet helped him to a sensible conclusion.

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

instead of the constant plashing of the waterfall, the water was still

Did he have to sit here, being solemn and serious with Kestrelflight, Mothwing, and Willowshine, just because he was a medicine-cat apprentice? If he was going to be an apprentice longer than any other cat, couldn't he at least have fun?

She sat still and silent, gazing unblinkingly at Mothermouth.

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

Meretzky suggests that you consider the following: