Quotes About Meditation

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Thought will not work except in silence.

It is absolutely indispensable, for most people, especially for the like of me, so thin-skinned and so confused at being, to get into perfect seclusion of mind from time to time and to be well alone

So if you are going to look for a pearl, it is best to still the waves; it will be hard to find if you stir the water. When the water of concentration is still and clear, the pearl of mind reveals itself.

The Way returns the carved and the polished to simplicity.

Everyone holds a luminous jewel, all embrace a precious gem; if you do not turn your attention around and look within, you will wander from home with a hidden treasure. Have you not heard it said, "In the ear it is like the great and small sounds in an empty valley, none not complete; in the eye it is like myriad images under a thousand suns, none able to avoid casting shadows"? If you seek it outside of sense experience, you will hinder the living meaning of Zen.

the opium-eater cannot present himself in the character of l'Allegro: even then, he speaks and thinks as becomes Il Penseroso.

I say that had you asked about meditation I could have spoken about it and counseled all to practice it. . . . But contemplation is something else. . . . This King doesn't give Himself but to those who give themselves entirely to Him."4

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When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

I need my time to be lonely.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Sometimes the body just needs to take a break, and you need to listen.

Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

The forward bend really relaxes the nervous system and brings blood flow back to the brain.

One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.

I am awake a lot of nights.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

Your mind is nirvana.

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.