Quotes About Meditation

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.