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Quotes About Meditation

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
~ Gustav Klimt
I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
~ Michael Leunig
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
~ William Wordsworth
"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
~ Unknown
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.
~ Rajneesh
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.
~ Frederick Lenz
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.
~ Frederick Lenz
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
~ Frederick Lenz
For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.
~ Unknown
I'm working in my mind.
~ Jasper Johns
We take our last look at the killing noise.
~ Jimi Hendrix
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Writing is the most solitary of arts.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
~ Lord Byron
The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
~ Margaret Atwood
High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.
~ Swami Vivekananda
As thou thinkest, so art thou.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
~ Veronica Roth