Quotes About Meditation

LAST NIGHT I lay awake for a long time, a really good "think" for a change.

Once more I realize acutely that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!

We are one, the house and I, and I am happy to be alone-- time to think, time to be. This kind of open-ended time is the only luxury that really counts and I feel stupendously rich to have it.

It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

But think of it this way, if people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.

I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.

I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I began to listen to everything. I probably hoped that after I had heard all the sounds, really heard them and packed them down, deep in my ears, the world would be quiet around me.

then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire.

Jon, larger and more gentle, moved slowly, spoke seldom and seemed to have burdened with the responsibility of pondering the world's imponderables.

When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think I need your chattering. I'm listening to myself. Hold!

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Joanna looked down at

There is little in our lives we need to do that we cannot do better if we are peaceful.

Prayer and meditation help us affirm that our Higher Power cares for us.

The spiritual space we're trying to find and maintain in meditation practice is the sacred place in each of us.