Quotes About Meditation

Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

There is indeed scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets...

Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.

Give me nights perfectly quiet... and I looking up at the stars...

My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon.

Shhh. Your soul is humming its tune. Listen well.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.

An evening walk gives the body and mind a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of the day, to shed the rubbish and mental clutter before retiring for the night.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have countered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone...

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.

While his eyes saw the sky, his soul saw Heaven.

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

The Earth just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we've done.

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.

nose in books, head in clouds

The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.