Quotes About Meditation

All meditations on death should be avoided, according to Reynolds Price: "Never give death a serious hearing till its ripeness forces your final attention and dignified nod.

some quality time with a good book. Trying to

Quiet had a restful quality. In quiet, she could find peace.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Most of my reading is rereading.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.

I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech

Be still. Be silent. Find the center of yourself.

Having a mind that cannot stay quiet, I've never been able to meditate without going stir-crazy. But give me a ball of dough and the not-so-distant dream of a piping hot cherry tart with a beautiful lattice-weave top and a generous sprinkling of confectioners sugar, and a feeling of serenity washes over me. My mind instantly hushes. ---Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

said grace. A bit of eyes-closed silence before a meal was probably a very good thing, no matter what thoughts might pass through her mind—gratitude, regret, contemplation, or nothing at all.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in the process. So when he came to a dead stop he indulged in what he called "shutting his eyes" for a little, and when he "opened" them again he habitually found a new light on things that revealed unexpected angles and made the old problem a totally new proposition. There

Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable.

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

Nothing predicts spiritual growth like individuals getting into the Word for themselves.

She gave this some thought. "Oh,

I couldn't count on the world being silent, so my only option was to become at peace with the noise.

Instead of running from our emotions or being swept away by their initial gusts, we should learn to sit with them, become at peace with their unique flavors, and ultimately discover deep pools of inspiration.

It takes years to learn to be still.