Quotes About Meditation

The Autobiography of a Yogi

Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment-seeking campus subculture of the era.

Fans inside computers were not Zen-like; they distracted.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. They

wanted instead to take a walk so that we could

Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. "Steve is very much Zen," said Kottke. "It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense

taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned

The Autobiography of a Yogi, the guide to meditation and spirituality

Los hombres de genio están, en realidad, haciendo lo más importante cuando menos trabajan —le dijo al duque—, puesto que meditan y perfeccionan las ideas que luego realizan con sus manos.

I very rarely think in words at all

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory.

He took it in for a moment. No internet. No phone service beyond the front desk. No television. No news. No information flow at all. Just a music collection and, somewhere, a library he evidently had to be medically fit to browse. It was quiet. It was actually quiet. He couldn't even hear other people. This little room was as close to sensory deprivation as he'd experienced since … when? Childhood?

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

I think and that is all that I am.

A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.

keep this ancient axiom in mind: I get what I think about, whether I want it or not.

When there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

You have a powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

And this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external source, human beings can work inwardly by means of their thought, their will, and their spirit to obtain the nourishing healing elements they need. This is why the teaching I bring you is of the spirit, of the creator and not of matter …