Quotes About Meditation

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.

Novel writing is solitary work.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

I try to work out more now. I have been really thinking about getting into yoga, though. I can use that, believe it.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

Thought will not work except in silence.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.