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Quotes About Meditation

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
~ Brett Dennen
No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
~ Ian Hacking
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.
~ Shinjo Ito
Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
~ Willard Scott
When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
~ Tenzin Palmo
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
~ John Milton
It is my nature to thin where others read.
~ Thomas Sydenham
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.
~ Julian Lennon
You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.
~ Tenzin Palmo
The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.
~ Leonard Jacobson
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.
~ Stanley Kauffmann
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
~ Stephen Harper
The nature of the mind is completely incredible.
~ Tenzin Palmo
The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.
~ Tenzin Palmo
You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.
~ Tenzin Palmo
We have the pure nature of the mind.
~ Tenzin Palmo
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.
~ William Hazlitt