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Quotes About Meditation

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
~ Anton Chekhov
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
~ Mencius
The sound of water says what I think.
~ Zhuangzi
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
~ Lin Yutang
Allow nature to teach you stillness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
~ Bodhidharma
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
~ Matsuo Basho
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
~ Dalai Lama
I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.
~ Ueli Steck
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
~ Mencius
One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature
~ Guido von List
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.
~ Marion G. Romney
As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.
~ Deepak Chopra
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
~ George Washington Carver
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
~ Annie Dillard
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
~ Bodhidharma
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
~ Bodhidharma
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
~ James Allen
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
~ Paul Gauguin