Quotes About Meditation

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus?" Fraa Jad asked. "He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge," I said. "You think he saw beauty? That is a safe answer, since it is beautiful. But what was he thinking about? What connections did the beauty enable him to perceive?" "I couldn't possibly answer that." "Don't answer it. Ask it.

But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.

Then he got a look on his face as if he were thinking. Daniel had learned, in his almost seventy years, not to expect much of people who got such looks, because thinking really was something one ought to do all the time.

Avi thinks this over before issuing the carefully engineered statement: "It is as true as it ever was.

Truth and God are found in the same place: in the silence.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life.

In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer—is everything. Prayer? Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell

If you do not go within, you go without.

Det å gjøre er en av kroppens funksjoner, Det å være er en funksjon ved sjelen.

Churn the milk of the mind, yourself the churner Locate the Primal Point and Sound, break it down with meditation Heat the butter of knowledge Spirituality empowered, you will find the ghee With these ingredients, a yagna I perform Offering the oblation of my own limbs. The flames that rise are your own effulgence In them my essence revealed, I stand as myself, finally. ~ Rupa Bhavani (1625-1721)

And without violating momentum laws, you cannot spontaneously levitate and hover above the ground, whether or not you are seated in the lotus position.† Knowledge

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of medication- an investugation of my own life. It has nothing to do with I've got to get another play2

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

What do you like most about being here? The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.

The steady rhythm of her footfalls set her mind adrift

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.