Quotes About Meditation

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.