Quotes About Meditation

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

I am not a great sleeper, so 30 minutes of meditation, they say in research, is as good as two or three hours sleep, which is why you feel better.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.

I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

I'm really slow.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over it.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

You can manage your energy - just slow down and be.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

I write slowly.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.