Quotes About Meditation

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Don't go searching for the Dhamma outside, for it lies within. Peace lies within, but we have to contemplate so that we're aware all around—subtly, deep down.

All forms of art demand a discipline that is not unlike praying. That lays a pipeline between the art & the truth.

The writer is all alone.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

words his answer made. "High, high thy thought

Rings out to meet me on my way.

Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite

O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive, outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.

Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.

In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

I haven't thought about her for nearly twenty minutes. With a bit of practice, I might make it to thirty.

Andrei walked a lot: this was the best and most pleasant state for him--to be walking, to move no matter where. Thoughts are simpler when you walk, and you can amuse them with what you see along the way

Silence is the indispensable climate for all revelation; noise renders it absolutely impossible.

While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves.

In Tibet, the word for meditation is gom, which means "to become familiar with one's self.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

The true poem rests between the words.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Charles Spurgeon once said: 'I looked at Christ, and the dove of peace flew into my heart. I looked at the dove, and it flew away.

Great thoughts come from the heart

Eén van de belangrijkste factoren voor geestelijke groei is immers tijd om na te denken en vrije tijd om uitdrukking te kunnen geven aan je gedachten.

The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!