Quotes About Meditation

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.

In practice, we return over and over again to perception, to just sitting. Practice is just hearing, just seeing, just feeling.

Our thoughts are not to be relied on. They just come and go. Are they important? No, they're not important. But until we know our thoughts a little bit, we believe them.

GOD, thank you for good friends who will speak the truth that is like soothing medicine. I don't always want to hear what people have to say, Lord, but help me not to refuse it since it is good for me. I want my life to reflect uncompromising faith. Empower me by your Spirit to take active steps to live a life without compromise.

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He lay down again and let the anger flow out of him. He cleansed his spirit, he let the positive powers renew his strength. He purified himself. A

As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.

Obierika was a man who thought about things.

this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

I have heard it argued that prayer does not change God's mind; rather, it changes us." "The act." "Yes, the act." "I will ponder that idea.

She was amazed at how easily distracted she could be when praying.

I'm not really deep enough to have enough to think about for fifteen minutes.

It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.

I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.

Sometimes I'll go fishing with a group of friends but I am just as happy sitting out there on my own. The strange mixture of peace and challenge that comes with being a dedicated angler has always been intoxicating to me.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

I have no inner monologue.

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.