Quotes About Meditation

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

I can get very quiet and internalize things.

There is an old Zen saying about seeing the moon's reflection in a pond. If the surface of the pond is agitated and full of ripples, the moon's reflection won't look anything like the moon. That agitation, those ripples, are your constant thoughts and feelings, which disturb your ability to perceive truth. When the pond is perfectly still, however -when your thoughts and feelings withdraw and stay quiet -then you can see the moon's reflection. You can perceive the truth.

If at bight you can't sleep, don't count sheep - talk to the Shepherd

The more we meditate on the Medicine Wheel and the Greater Wheel Above, the Cosmic Wheel, relating these to circles, spheres, mandalas of other traditions, the deeper grows our realization of the oneness of the myriad paths leading to the Center.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.

Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.

All artist of some measure contemplative.

To "know thyself" has been a pivotal part of most spiritual traditions; here we will be considering it in depth in order to free ourselves from the self-centered drama of "me.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

continued staring

Not moving, and barely

else to go Felicity sits down upon the steps to consider

had enough time to think about it.

When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

THE POOL Horned owl Stops his meditations, cleans his glasses, sighs. A firefly spins downhill & a star slides by. Old owl shaked his wings, takes up his meditations.