Quotes About Meditation

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation.

Hold on to the center. Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.

Tao Te Ching for

There Is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem [Harper Collins, 2001].)

I urge you to demand more and more time for silence in your life.

Imagine having access to a very special place where we could retreat and commune

The place of your origination is stillness, from which all of creation comes.

You might quiet the whole world for a second if you pray. And if you love, if you really love, our guns will wilt.

Spend some of your quiet meditation time visualizing a tiny spark of awareness glowing within your being.

If you don't control your thoughts, who does?

Somewhere within the soul there is silence. Attain unto it. It is a pearl of great price.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

I've come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here." Sabbaths 2000 IX

In solitude, we lose our loneliness.

I like to be alone. Also, I drift, perhaps. When in a crowd, nothing seems to be worth while, and one is an ant in a hurrying mass. Alone, thoughts come with force. They strike one as bluntly as seen things impress themselves.

I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.

refuses to consider

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library