Quotes About Meditation

He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.

You stay up here for a while, cuddle ol' Izzy-B—somethin' soothin' about runnin' your hands over a purrin' cat. An' do some talkin' with God.

Being alone had one advantage: undisturbed time. She used it to read her Bible and study and pray. And think. In some ways, asking Jesus into her heart had been the easy part. Now she wanted to discern how His presence should affect her daily life.

There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A

Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.

In a time of famine typified by too many words with too much noise in them, we could use fewer words with more silence in them. This is a difficult concept to grasp, but you know it when you hear it. Some of the most effective language in the world leads you up to the brink of silence and leaves you there, with the soft surf of the unsayable lapping at your feet.

creating more space for stillness in order to reflect on important decisions.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I have gone to the forest

HOUSE Grow high. The devil can't find you. Grow deep. Buddha can't find you. Build a house and live there. Gourd creepers will climb over it, their flowers dazzling at midnight.

I stood facing the horizon over the East Sea. What had become of the seventeen hundred koan-riddles? The sound of waves the sound of waves. Playing with you I threw them away.

In its eyethe far-off hills are mirrored—dragonfly!

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop world And yet —

In this world we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers

Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

I sit and gaze like this for a long time, recovering through art from the effort of creating it.

There are three keys here that God said would determine his success. First, the Law of God was to be in his mouth. Next, he was to meditate on it day and night. And finally, he was to do all that he was talking about and meditating on.

Meditating on the prophetic words spoken over our lives reminds us of God's desire for our future and His ability to fulfill our destiny.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family even though you've had a long day.

I suddenly understood why ancient man sat around staring at fire. It was a beautiful dance as old as the dawn of time. You could easily become entranced within its flames; stripping away everything except the raw humanity that burned within us all.

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.