Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is the way to secure your future without struggle.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.

If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

I'm blessed, and... all the time, I sit and think, 'Wow.'

I used to spend hours just sitting in an old wreck of a car with a stickshift; I'd just sit there and shift.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Writers are not meant for action.

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Writing is the supreme solace.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.