Quotes About Meditation

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy

Understanding demands silence.

La comprensión exige silencio.

Considering what?

To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.

Attachment was my mother, and anger was my father. They both died, so I have nothing to do. Now I do not need to do anything." Meditation will become your very nature when you give up attachment, anger, and pride. Then you will not have to pose for meditation, for your whole life will be a sort of meditation.

the autonomic

Mantra is a spiritual guide which dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

I pray to hear Him clearly, and to speak His truth just as clearly

asking God to surround us with the white light of the Holy Spirit every morning and night is

promised to make a nightly habit, for one month, of praying that any pain and negativity she'd brought over from past lives be released from her cell memory and her spirit mind into the white light of the Holy Spirit, so that she could truly appreciate all she had to give and receive in this life.

Keep thinking those thoughts

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.

As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

beating time along the edge of thought.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind cooly as a tree or a flower.