Quotes About Meditation

Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me.

It's in the silence you feel you hear.

Why was he kneeling there like a child saying his evening prayers? To be alone with his soul, to examine his conscience, to meet his sins face to face, to recall their times and manners and circumstances, to weep over them.

or a jaculation from the garden of the soul.

It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

Chief Joseph already said it. "The place where I go is the place where I will be.

The mystics may have found solace in the meditative life, but I think there are days when memory and solitude are not one's friend.

Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.

spent the rest of the afternoon in my room. A faucet was ticking in the bathroom as loudly as a mechanical clock, with the same sense of urgency and waste. I tried to tighten the

His jaw went slack, the way an old man's does when his thought processes take him into blind alleys.

I didn't mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.

The words of his Zen Buddhist flight instructor echoed in his head: You are a leaf on the wind.

Give order to the future by attending to it with your thoughts. -Darth Plageuis

2.49) O Arjuna, action is very much inferior to the yoga of the intellect (buddhiyoga). Seek refuge in the intellect! Wretched are they who are motivated by results.

Some see the self in the self by means of the self through meditation; others through S??khya yoga; and others through the yoga of action.

He leaned on the church wall and gave his heart a moment to catch itself.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.

One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.

DIAGRAMMING MY DEATH SENTENCE

I sat on the kitchen stool long enough

Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around