Quotes About Meditation

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

...remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Look for the answer inside your question.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.