Quotes About Meditation

Nie ma rozpusty gorszej ni? my?lenie.

the unthinkable / is thinkable.

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You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.

While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.

Solvitur ambulando: "When in doubt, walk.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

To live with ghosts requires solitude.

When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's just me and the movement and the motion. That's what I love—just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

In my own pursuits I have drawn heavily from four traditional yoga texts: the Siva Samhita, the Goraksa Sataka, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines as translated by Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup.

Christopher Young

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?