Quotes About Meditation

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

I truly love everything about India. I love the fact I can uplift my soul, energy to higher heights.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

The more you think, the more time you have.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.