Quotes About Meditation

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one—contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

For those who have the habit of prayer, thought is too often a mere alibi, a sly way of deciding to do what one wants to do. Reason will always obscure what we wish to keep in the shadows. A worldling can think out the pros and cons and sum up his chances. No doubt. But what are our chances worth? We who have admitted once and for all into each moment of our puny lives the terrifying presence of God?...What is the use of working out chances? There are no chances against God.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

being alone is better

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.

feeding your flow with good nutrition, creating fast flow with intense exercise, and maintaining smooth and unobstructed flow with meditation and relaxation.

Try taking time for a few minutes of deep, slow breathing morning and evening, to train yourself for optimum breathing all

Place one hand on your abdomen; see if you can feel it move outward as you breathe in. This moves the diaphragm in a way that provides the most space for your breath. As you breathe out, tighten your belly muscles, pushing as much breath as possible upward and outward. Repeat for a few cycles, and remember to do this several times during the day, especially whenever you feel particularly tense.

Do yoga. The gentle stretching of yoga and tai chi systematically move your blood and

Even a few minutes of meditation in the morning and evening can allow your lymph to flow to the more urgent needs of your cardiovascular system, for recovery and prevention. Meditation and mindfulness practice have been documented to lower stress levels, and decrease cholesterol and blood pressure directly. As

Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives—usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature.

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.