Quotes About Meditation

wellness. During her time in Malta, she did not speak

it is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed.

It's been said that golf is a Zen activity. I'd argue that if golfers were practicing Zen, they wouldn't keep score.

I've begun to picture my abdominal cavity occupied instead by a single glowing globe

The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.

Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.

omphaloskepsis

Cartersian doubt (deliberate suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain)

although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.

We cannot listen to the voice of God in a hurry.

The more we train ourselves to spend time with God and him alone, the more we will discover that God is with us at all times and in all places. Henri Nouwen

I do believe that long periods of silence and introspection do a great deal to enrich a person's spiritual and emotional dimensions.

Write at the edges of the day.

Lo que tengo que hacer es meterme en la cama y no moverme. Quiero concentrarme en algo que sea inofensivo en este mundo.

I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get

THERE IS a loneliness that can be rocked.

No, really. Just quiet. Nothing louder than waves lapping or ice melting in crystal glasses.

I thought about chops. I thought about chops.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. The fabrication of an Africanist persona is reflexive; an extraordinary meditation on the self; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious. It is an astonishing revelation of longing, of terror, of perplexity, of shame, of magnanimity. It requires hard work not to see this.

There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

The best way to avoid meaningless repetition is to continue getting to know God. The better you know a person, the more the two of you have to discuss. Whenever you learn something new about our great God, include that in your prayer life.

Ahora bien, debes saber que cuando la Biblia menciona que alguien se arrodilló, significa que ese tiempo de oración era en serio.

mad monk, minus the spiritual insight.

It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.