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Quotes About Meditation

our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Many of us continue to run even in our sleep. We can never rest. In our dreams, in our nightmares, we continue to run.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
When we walk with solidity and freedom, and when mindfulness of our breathing brings us solidity, freedom, peace, and joy, then the Pure Land is there right away.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream. It is not dying, it is not dying.
~ The Beatles
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
~ The Beatles
The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.
~ The Mother
In silence, the consciousness grows. It aspires to know You more and more perfectly. More Answers From The Mother, vol 17, p.380
~ The Mother
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. ref. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954
~ The Mother
In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.
~ The Mother
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
~ Theodor Adorno
I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.
~ Theodore Dreiser
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
~ Theodore Roethke
Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion worse.
~ Theodore Roethke
Brooding on God, I may become a man.
~ Theodore Roethke
A mind too active is no mind at all. --Infirmity
~ Theodore Roethke
Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord.
~ Theodore Roethke
Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets." The former is easy enough, and is what even an accomplished loafer has to go through before he reaches the latter and more blissful state. It takes years of practice to relax sufficiently to be able to "just set." I'd learned it years ago. But
~ Theodore Sturgeon
L'alba Non assomiglia a una nuova pagina di un libro È una sinfonia di rinascita col suo spiegamento di suoni e colori Ogni alba è un'ode A ventiquattro ore nuove di zecca P 208 chiamami con i miei veri nomi
~ Thich Naht Hanh
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh