Quotes About Meditation

Stitch your stress away.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

Inner thought: it is easier to make rhymes on a train; the lines come out the right length because the wheel clicks never miss their count. Idea: if we were a poet we would spend all our time on trains.

If you ask, "What is the use of praying?" I answer, "Woe is me if I do not pray!" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

You don't always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just, simply, pray.

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.

...prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts.

when it's a glorious day I pray and it's a glorious day when I pray

Life's Unpredictability. — Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

In office a Confucian, in retirement a Taoist.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

What a gloomy thing not to know the address of one's soul!

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.

Silence was never written down.

If you can't get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.