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Quotes About Meditation

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
~ S. N. Goenka
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
~ Brandon Lee
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
~ Dolph Lundgren
Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.
~ Frederick Lenz
Art is made by the alone for the alone.
~ Luis Barragan
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
~ Bruce Lee
Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
~ David Ben-Gurion
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
~ Bill Viola
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
~ Unknown
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
~ Andrew Wyeth
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.
~ Mark Rothko
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~ Pablo Picasso
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
~ Martha Graham
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up
~ Shane Koyczan
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
~ Joe Rogan
There is no art without contemplation.
~ Robert Henri
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
~ Frank Bettger
I recommend the art of slow reading.
~ Amos Oz
Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.
~ Greg Cipes