Quotes About Meditation

I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself inside this apple. What tranquility!

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

[Charles] Sumner's mind had reached the calm of water which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contained nothing but itself.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Sumner's mind had reached the calm of water which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contained nothing but itself.

Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in sleep.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.

There are records I play like when someone goes to the temple and spins the prayer wheel. Like The Crack by the Ruts, which is a great record anyway but sometimes I play it just so the room is filled with it, so the air can't say it doesn't exist, so the walls must acknowledge it.

Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.