Quotes About Meditation

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.