Quotes About Meditation

I preach the gospel of meditation now to anyone who'll listen. It has helped me appreciate the small things. It helps me be present and stay grounded every day.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

I spend so much time thinking and I don't generally have strong emotional reactions too much.

the second possible explanation for the noetic sense: when our sense of a subjective "I" disintegrates, as it often does in a high-dose psychedelic experience (as well as in meditation by experienced meditators), it becomes impossible to distinguish between what is subjectively and objectively true. What's left to do the doubting if not your I?

ordained Zen monk

But along with the feeling of ineffability, the conviction that some profound objective truth has been disclosed to you is a hallmark of the mystical experience, regardless of whether it has been occasioned by a drug, meditation, fasting, flagellation, or sensory deprivation.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.")

Ã…Å¡wiÄ…tecznÄ… póÅ'noc miÅ'o jest zatrzyma? nieco dÅ'u?ej

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...

The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

there is nothing we can do longer than think, no activity to which we can devote ourselves more regularly nor more easily:

With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;

Meditar previamente sobre a morte é meditar previamente sobre a liberdade.Quem aprendeu a morrer desaprendeu a se subjugar. Não há nenhum mal na vida para aquele que bem compreendeu que a privação da vida não é um mal. Saber morrer liberta-nos de toda sujeição e imposição.

Às vezes é boa escolha nada escolher.

Ratio et prudentia curas, Non locus effusi late maris arbiter aufert. [Was Sorgen zerstreut, ist Weisheit und Ruhe, nicht schöne Aussicht nach Hügeln und Meeren.]

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