Quotes About Meditation

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

Gerçek dinin ölüm üzerine bir meditasyon de?il, hayat üzerine bir meditasyon olmas? gerekti?ini (oradan) ö?rendim.

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.

The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

Empty the mind of all its chatter and see what's there. This is the work of self-knowledge: to uncover your authentic self.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body--when he could forget that he had a body at all.

True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.

I think solitude chose me.

The walk north was exactly the right distance to make me walk out of myself....If you walked out of yourself going north, what did you do on the return walk? Enjoyed my emptiness. Or sometimes just congratulated myself for escaping.

Nonie often remarked that every one of us needed to get away from other people and replenish our personal reserves.

day, she went directly to her chaise longue and left it only

You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.

When the water boiled, Michiko poured it into the pot of green leaves and we both waited in the thick silence. I felt strangely calmed by this simple ritual I had seen my mother do many hundred times before. It was all that seemed to make sense in this place and I held on to it as if I were drowning.

The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.

Person who always runs after the world outside without knowing the 'self'', never gets proper peace in life.

What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.

Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

If spiritual practices serve the purpose of stopping the mind, they are strong allies. But if they deepen the belief that you are someone in particular who practices something in particular in order to get something that you do not believe is already here, then they are an obstruction.

Tú sabes que no hago nada más que hablarme a mí mismo para distraer mi soledad. Sabes que mi soledad es irremediable, nadie puede consolarme, no puedo recurrir a otro que a mí como interlocutor de mis discusiones. En este largo monólogo, <> es el objeto de mi relato, en realidad es un yo que me escucha atentamente, <> no es más que me propia sombra.

This is the essence of Qigong: a total absorption of the senses and spirit. With this absorption comes a rebalancing.

Qigong is a strategy for freedom from our cage of isolation.

Godly saints will always tell you that the inward witness of the Spirit is most clearly heard when you are quiet before him in prayer. It is then that his still, small voice can be most clearly heard. It is not then drowned out by the noisiness and busyness of our lives.

Take karma, make dharma.