Quotes About Meditation

She attributed her own fine sewing to the prolonged periods of silence at Meeting; these had made her thoughts level and her hand steady, which was reflected in her even stitching.

Father always said fishing is about not fishing as much as fishing." Indeed. And about not thinking. We all need to do things that take us out of ourselves.

You got to be praying all the time, or else you're just thinking about yourself.

Being alone feels more honest.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness...

What's wrong with silence? Listen to it, it's beautiful.

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

Yet anchoring your thoughts unswervingly in the present, focusing exclusively, immediately, on the here and now, is a cognitive discipline that both psychopathy and spiritual enlightenment have in common.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. This

to counter negativity in the mind is a classical Buddhist teaching called "replacing with the opposite";

A theologian is one who prays—and stays awake.

Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A

Think about and meditate on things you are thankful for. More importantly, think about people you are thankful for and why.

With each deep, measured breath, she imagined that various parts of her body were slowly going numb, from her fingers to her hand to her wrist to her elbow to her shoulder, until she was as close to dead as she could be. It was an old Fang family technique employed before doing something disastrous. You pretended to be dead and when you came out of it, nothing, no matter how dire, seemed important.

At night I count not the stars but the dark.

?if? is an essential way of making the Qur'?n penetrate you. It is not a mechanical, ritual act; it is an act of high spiritual and devotional importance. Only through ?if? can you read the Qur'?n in Prayers and ponder over its meaning while you stand in the presence of the Speaker. But apart from that, it makes the Qur'?n flow on your tongue, reside in your mind, dwell in your heart: it becomes your constant companion.

In solitude is bliss.

Just like yoga, skipping provides exercise for the body, mind, and spirit.

The more centered you are, the less you occupy the center. That's when awareness begins.

Many spiritual teachings say we can transmute our negative karma by using spiritual tools.

We have to engage in a quest to discover what the self is; we have to walk the road of self-discovery. I believe that road must be a spiritual road.