Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is key. It's a crazy world we live in. Everything is happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

To those who say: 'Why pay for a gym when the outdoors is free?' I say this. In nature, there are no medicine balls. You can lie on an outsized gourd doing sit-ups, but in reality, outsized gourds are hard to come by unless you live in a farmers' market.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

If you are going to have healthy relationships, you'll need to spend time alone with God. Paradoxically, those who have the healthiest relationships often are the most comfortable in being alone with God.

He made a conscious decision not to think about it, and accordingly spent the rest of his shift thinking about nothing else.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

WHAT dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us," Alexandre Dumas would one day write in his memoir, meditating on his father's fate. "When they are revealed, men may realize that it is by the good providence of God they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Relaxing in the commonplace Asian insanity, the world became mine.

La pedra, i no els pensaments, és el que fa cercles en el gorg.

The only proper prayer is one of gratitude for your knowledge to ask for wisdom and understanding.

You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that thought deeper into your mind, making it even more of a distraction.

A melhor forma de entrar no Santo dos Santos é de joelhos.

Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.

In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future, one doesn't hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and heartbeat this instant.

I want to be alone to dream about my happiness.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can't see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

The world's asleep,' Moomintroll thought. 'It's only I who am awake and sleepless. It's only I who have to wander and wander, day after day and week upon week, until I too become a snowdrift that no one will even know about.

Ingen ting kan være så rolig og så uendelig som et langt vitermørke, det fortsetter og fortsetter, det er som å leve i en tunnel der mørket stundom fordyper seg til natt og stundom blir dagskumring, man er avskjermet fra alt, beskyttet og mer ensom enn ellers.

Mats har ingen hemmeligheter. Det er derfor han er så hemmelighetsfull. Ingen må forstyrre ham, han må få være uforstyrret i en forenklet og ren verden.