Quotes About Meditation

I really have no interest in myself.

He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning.

I'm burning a bunch of little pinecones now that I gathered on the walk. One of the joys of life, I think, is trying to decipher the name on a gravestone as it is transmitted through the dense foliage of blue-green gravestone lichen. Some people clean off the grave-growths with chemicals and wire brushes, a mistake.

Reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness.

It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza; in the end life makes window watchers of us all

Lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

Then one day I was looking out the window. Maybe I was contemplating the sky. Put even a fool in front of the window and you'll get a Spinoza.

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value

To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone–that is the secret of invention.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The

When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

Life's true face is the skull.

drays. Never did he see one but that he thought of his

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content.

I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.

it's good for the soul to stop and take a long look now and again at what really lasts.