Quotes About Meditation

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear

The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.

Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

And let the clean space shine in the hands of its captor the slow, elegant, daily drinker of the waves.

The place we should escape to is the feet of Jesus. He alone can stabilize our souls and recharge our spirits to run the next heat in the race.

nightcap with Browne

The purpose of life is to realize our spiritual nature. And to do that one has to go away and practise, to reap the fruits of the path, otherwise you have nothing to give anyone else.

He knows he only has the choice of going crazy or going inside and finding his own mind, which is what Buddhism is all about. Buddhism maintains that one's reality is part of one's own mindset, and that through discovering your own mind, even in the direst situations you can make your world a pure realm.

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

This is what breath meditation is about: watching your breath, straying off, realizing it, and gently returning. Over and over again. Like I said, meditation is a practice.

Accept this reality: It is your mind's job to think—24/7. And it's not going to stop just because you sit down for 8 minutes and tell it to "Shut up, already!" But the good news is this: When you stop trying to stop your thoughts, you begin to surpass them. This can lead you to the peace you thought you could only achieve when you stopped thinking!

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point of education, of meditation and prayer. The more one lifts oneself up, the more of the pattern he is able to make out, though only an enlightened few have a perspective lofty enough to see the outline whole.

But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in that fashion, he did not know that it is possible to think better, more accurately, more clearly.