Quotes About Meditation

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

the supreme lord and the individual soul are sitting in the body like 2 friendly birds in a tree

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Seeing in myself this purity of livelihood, I found great solace in dwelling in the forest.

One's feelings of pleasure, pain or equanimity are known to him as they arise, known to him as they are present, and known to him as they subside; his perceptions are known to him as they arise, known to him as they are present, and known to him as they subside; his thoughts are known to him as they arise, known to him as they are present, and known to him as they subside.

Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?

Like a lake unruffled by any breeze, the concentrated mind is a faithful reflector that mirrors whatever is placed before it exactly as it is.

Just as, when a cow to be slaughtered is led to the shambles, whenever she lifts a leg she will be closer to slaughter, closer to death; even so, brahmins, is human life like cattle doomed to slaughter; it is short, limited, and brief. It is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere and going nowhere, yet continuing in sequence without pause.

He says that whatever one reflects upon frequently becomes the inclination of the mind. If

Sam?dhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.

One-pointedness of mind explains the fact that in any act of consciousness there is a central point of focus, towards which the entire objective datum points from its outer peripheries to its inner nucleus.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

I have purposed to try to live in such a way that nothing ever gets bigger than my consciousness of God's presence.

What's the solution? To meditate on the Word and give ourselves every opportunity to remember what is true.

We must get our minds set on spiritual things because as long as we fill our minds with what's happening in the natural, we restrict our effectiveness.

meditating on what God has said until I can see it and run with it.

bathroom—if you

I've learned more sitting alone in a small room facing a dark wall & myself than anything I ever read