Quotes About Meditation

What is the difference between the mind resting in tranquility and the mind moving in thought?

Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the evening, completely sober, and it's spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.

I don't party or socialize.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

I've let my body soften. I've let it relax.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.