Quotes About Meditation

Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come.

usual. She walked to the couch and sat down, her eyes closed once again. She spoke rather slowly. The following is my reconstruction of the brief and somewhat enigmatic session.) There is no necessity for taking notes. There is something here that you

consider merely that all types of awareness are trance states... consciousness is the direction in which the self looks.

He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events in your life took place in your head.

When are you going to start saying nothing?

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.

The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

She's never where she is. She's only inside her head.

the gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.

Spending time in the studio, and creating music brings me peace unlike anything in my life.

Especially when you have a lot going on, you must find a way to unplug and focus on yourself.

For me, if I didn't have reading I'd go absolutely crazy. It really helps me to unplug from the whole world, and keep my sanity, and be able to fill my time with something other than technology.

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

I love to go to the gym for a couple of hours daily. Besides, I love my dancing routines; dance helps me unwind, de-stress, and introspect.

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

I schedule 'me' time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.

I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

For me, I'll unwind at the end of the day by soaking in Epsom salts. It's the routine I prefer for coming down after crazy days.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.