Quotes About Meditation

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.

The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

An altered state of consciousness simply means any state of awareness that is different from our normal waking state. When we daydream or dream at night, we are in an altered state. We can also get into an altered state by using meditations, hypnosis and exercises like jogging or yoga. Using drugs or alcohol can also produce an altered state, but in a less healthy way.

One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be "alone with your thoughts." But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.

paused to take another breath. "And taking these worries

And yesterday, when she'd claimed a quiet place on

You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I

I find her often at the peach tree, looking up at its branches and listening to the rustle of its leaves.

I walk to think and not to think. When walking I remember things that are important to me. I walk to forget. I have yet to set out on a walk in low spirits and return feeling worse than I did when I left the door. A change occurs between the fate and the porch, walking lifts the weight off the heart. Or as the writer Jim Harrison says, "When you're out of sorts, walk a hundred miles.

I keep driving, slowly, hoping I'll remember where I'm going before I get there. So far I always have. Zen

I have learned some things about pain through my sitting practice. If I move to adjust my posture prematurely, the pain will chase me wherever I go, but if I just sit still when the pain starts, it often goes away, or recedes into the background.

Most writing doesn't take place on the page; it takes place in your head.