Quotes About Meditation

How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

Monkey brain refers to the way your mind swings from thought to thought, like a monkey swinging from branch to branch.

While you are looking at the stars tonight, I want you to reflect on two koans. The first one is this: out of nowhere, the mind comes forth. And the second: show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Singing is exercise for the soul.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day, unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

this "is-ness" just some philosophical abstraction? No. Just like the yogis of India, Parmenides says is-ness is consciousness. And everything that exists, even rocks and stones, participates in this living awareness.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

Quiet your mind through prayer and meditation Scripture admonishes us to meditate day and night on God's Word. It brings physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and peace to our minds. When thoughts are racing in my head and I cannot sleep, I will often focus on a portion of Scripture or on the name of Jesus. Meditation allows us to just be in the moment with God. It stops everything else and brings attention to the here and now. It makes us aware of His presence.

Maybe praying was another way to practice hope.

Good mathematics is a soliloquy, communicated.

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.