Quotes About Meditation

Work alone is noble.

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Yoga's an amazing release.

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. Wendell Berry

joy teaches him to rise, to stand and move out through the opening the light has made. He stands on the green hilltop amid the cedars, the skewed stones, the earth all opened doors… Sabbaths 2001 I

Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and it could not be unconcentrated sometimes until daylight.

It has always taken me a long time to think of something to say, and then more often than not I say it to myself.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.

It is a question with me still, and the answer has altogether disappeared from the world.

In general, I weathered even the worst sermons pretty well. They had the great virtue of causing my mind to wander. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

All friends and comfortable with each other have ceased to talk, each occupied in that wide quiet with his own thoughts.

Aunt Beulah could hear the dust motes collide in a sunbeam; she could hear spiders chewing on flies.