Quotes About Meditation

Transcendental Meditation

THE ONE-MINUTE BREATH A variation of the Retained Breath is the One-Minute Breath, in which you take only one breath during one minute. Most people will find this difficult at first, and should work up to it by taking three breaths per minute, and then three breaths over two minutes. As a rule, people usually take about twelve to fourteen breaths per minute.

1. Sit erect in a comfortable position, with your chest, neck, and head vertically aligned. Place your hands on your lap, and hold your shoulders slightly back. 2. Inhale a Complete Breath during 6 beats of your heart. (Take your pulse before beginning the exercise, to get a feel for the length of 6 heartbeats.) 3. Retain the breath for 3 heartbeats, and exhale it during 6 heartbeats. 4. Pause for 3 heartbeats between breaths.

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

Il ciriveddro è 'na gran camurria di machina che non sulo non s'arresta mai, ma t'obbliga a pinsari a quello che voli lui

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

Poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed" -Carl Phillips

Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The nations that had instituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a startling glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world.

Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?" Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot. "Their position seems to be," Vaygay replied dryly, "that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist." As

Göz önünde tutmak'' anlam?ndaki Ä°ngilizce ''consider'' sözcüÄŸünün köken anlam? ÅŸudur: ''Gezegene bakarak konuÅŸmak.'' Gezegenlere bakarak konuÅŸmaksa oldukça ciddi bir iÅŸti.

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice—but let it be.

What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.

His thoughts drifted randomly, as thoughts will do.

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, the great and honorable wizard, stood alone on the wizard's rock his father had given him, and stared out into the night, thinking wizard's thoughts. "Nothing is ever easy," he whispered.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Tiffany's Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I'm thinking about how I think about what I'm thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let's all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.