Quotes About Meditation

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.