Quotes About Meditation

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

Now I see the mystery of your loneliness .

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound.

speak to me as to thy thinking As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words...

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

Knock... and ask your heart what it doth know.

We rest your hermits.

I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

For me the real healers were seclusion and time.

By pausing, if only for a few seconds and taking a few slow, deep breaths, we can begin to slow down our heart rate and relax our tensed muscles. We can then focus more effectively on what response will best advance our interests.

then found a bench in a

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

Quit being so busy and learn quiet, to quit talking so much and learn silence.

inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

The silence following great words of Peace.62

in painted quiet and concentration