Quotes About Meditation

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.