Quotes About Meditation

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

I am a religious person and rely heavily on prayers.

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

I trained myself out of the habit of relying on notifications to make me feel good so that I could dedicate my time to my personal two-hour meditation practice every morning.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.

The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

I'm not a hunter.