Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.

Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

There is an art i n silence, and there is an eloquence i n it too.

What takes place in me stays there.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all. p 227

If You Learn Only One Yoga Pose . . . . . . let it be supta baddha konasana.

It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

But here is where the gods are, speculating, bemused.

The unexamined life is not worth living." —Socrates

Wendla: How did you come here? Melchior: I followed my thoughts.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement

It isn't only famous movie stars who want to be alone. Whenever I hear someone speak of privacy, I find myself thinking once again how real and deep the need for such times is for all human beings . . . at all ages.

When I think of solitude, I think of an anecdote from With the Door Open: My Experience by the late Danish religious philosopher Johannes Anker Larsen: "The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.