Quotes About Meditation

Pravé umÄ›ní", kÃ…â"¢i?el Mistr, "je bezú?elné, bezcílné!

So understood, the art of archery is rather like a preparatory school for Zen, for it enables the beginner to gain a clearer view, through the works of his own hands, of events which are not in themselves intelligible.

That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!" It took me a considerable time before I succeeded in doing what the Master wanted. But—I succeeded.

penetrating into the spirit of the Great Doctrine.

It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand.

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

Meditation is the primary way in which we guard against the fragmentation of our Scripture reading into isolated oracles. Meditation enters into the coherent universe of God's revelation. Meditation is the prayerful employ of imagination in order to become friends with the text. It must not be confused with fancy or fantasy.

There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.

If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer.

I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits. The

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego.

The fusion is accomplished by reading these Scriptures slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully and obediently. This is the way the Bible has been read by most Christians for most of the Christian centuries, but it is not commonly read that way today. The reading style employed more often than not

I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.

The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, I believe we should listen to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.

The last word of philosophy is loneliness.

I don't believe in saying anything unless there's something to say. As time goes on, the less I speak. Boredom, depression, equanimity.

I sipped, thanking the particles of tea leaves for absorbing the sun's heat on dewy terraced mountains, growing fat and lustrous, then drying in the same heat, preserving God's grace in a fragile, fragrant medium for me to drink at this table.

midafternoon— and wait and watch.

The relaxation response yields many long-term benefits in both health and well-being and can be brought on with very simple mental focusing or meditation techniques.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

meditate on how each of your particular faults is a direct hindrance to the unfoldment of love.

the grasping mind cannot grasp its ultimate inability to grasp; it can only cultivate its tolerance of that inability.

Speaking out to your close ones, even if it is over the phone, is the right way to relieve stress and further amplify the same relief by meditation.