Quotes About Meditation

I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.

If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace.

So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.

A bird gives a cry–the mountains quiet all the more.' 49 (This is also perhaps the real meaning behind Hakuin Ekaku's famous eighteenth-century-BCE koan 'What is the Sound of the Single Hand?': it is an invitation to attend to the silence, the emptiness.

No reason at all why one should go on writing just for the sake of it. I think it is very important to stop when you haven't got anything to say.

Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?" "Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.

It's all in the way you breathe.

Not much else to do in there. There's no TV.

Solitude encourages reflection and productivity, if you're prepared for it.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro

Citar es citarse.

el silencio desde donde la música es posible

Parto del principio de que la reflexión debe preceder a la acción

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

La noche queda para quien es

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.

As in a mirror, he 'looks at himself again and again before performing an action; he looks at himself again and again before saying a word; he looks at himself again and again before harboring a thought.' It can easily be seen that by following such a path a man naturally transforms himself into a kind of living statue made up of awareness, into a figure pervaded by composedness, decorum, and dignity . . .

Solitude should not be a burden, something that is suffered, that is borne involuntarily, or in which refuge is taken by force of circumstances, but rather, a natural, simple, and free disposition. In a text [Suttanip?ta] we read: 'Solitude is called wisdom, he who is alone will find that he is happy'.

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all action.