Quotes About Meditation

We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

He was so fascinated by the long single strand of black hair that he did not overflow his mind with fantasies about it, turning it into a hundred varieties of his imagination.    He just sat there staring at it.    Japanese hair.

I am certain that a quiet mind is the foundation of inner peace. And inner peace translates into outer peace.

Pascal said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

You never need to be frightened by your own thoughts.

It's so dark, he thought, that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as a present to myself but haven't made much progress there—though I need to.

apropos of nothing.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day. BRENDA UELAND

One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work—and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn't have to do it perfectly? What if we didn't have to "do" it at all? What if we could rest—and let God do the rest?

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

A mind too active is no mind at all. THEODORE ROETHKE

God must become an activity in our consciousness. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA

Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

When we chop and pare vegetables, we do so with our thoughts as well. Remember, art is an artist-brain pursuit. This brain is reached through rhythm—through rhyme, not reason. Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

took pen to page, praying for guidance.

I took pen to page, praying for guidance.

Se medita para descubrir la propia identidad, el verdadero lugar que ocupamos en el universo

perch on the wall

Gustave's last years are arid and solitary. He

A few deep breaths would take care of that. She studied the horse and took deep breaths.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure; if there be any virtue … think on these things." NEW TESTAMENT, PHILIPPIANS, 4:8

It keeps us centered and focused, it slows down the aging process, it lowers our blood pressure, it improves our stamina, our memory, our lung capacity, our general outlook on life itself.