Quotes About Meditation

We walked in silence. Nature can cancel thought. We needed to walk and there was nothing more to say.

I am busy with the Lord in Wigan

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes my reveries end in meditation, but more often my meditations end in reverie and during these wanderings, my soul roams and takes flight through the universe on the wings of the imagination and ecstasies that exceed all other pleasures.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

O t?cere des?vârÅŸit? te îndeamn? la tristeÈ›e, e ca o icoan? a morÈ›ii.

Cuando me he fijado en algunas páginas de un autor que debe ser leído con atención, mi espíritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.

El gusto por la soledad y la contemplación nació en mi corazón con los sentimientos expansivos y tiernos hechos para ser su alimento. El tumulto y el ruido los oprimen y los ahogan, la calma y la paz los reaniman y los exaltan. Tengo necesidad de recogerme para amar.

Allowing that nature intended we should always enjoy good health, I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.

My meditations and reveries are never more delightful than when I forget myself. I feel ecstasies and inexpressible delight when I melt, so to speak, into the system of beings and identify myself with the whole of nature.

There was only one thing he

Gently boiling potatoes make a sound not unlike a small stream moving quickly over rocks. I thought it would be perfect for one of those ambient-noise tapes: The Ocean; Wind in the Pine Trees; Boiling Potatoes. It was very soothing. I measured baking powder to its dulcet tones.

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns:

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.