Quotes About Meditation

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.

I am drawn towards the power of spirituality and derive a lot of energy from it.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.