Quotes About Meditation

Wisdom comes from introspection.

Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air.

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

Deliberate often - decide once.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

My whole process is based on meditation as well as listening really closely to what the director says and what the choreographer says. I try to stay in the immediate present reality with my partners on stage, give and take reality.

My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.