Quotes About Meditation

I never listen to music when I write.

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.