Quotes About Meditation

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Zen has no business with ideas.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Those that are above business.

Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.

Turn your car into a monastery.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

Tonglen (sending-and-taking) practice also helps cultivate fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you begin to realize that fear has to do with wanting to protect your heart: you feel that something is going to harm your heart, and therefore you protect it.

Make the dharma personal, explore it wholeheartedly, and relax.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

When we become aware that we are thinking, we say to ourselves, "thinking," with an unbiased attitude and with tremendous gentleness. Then we return our focus to the breath. We regard the thoughts as bubbles and the labeling like touching them with a feather. There's just this light touch—"thinking"—and they dissolve back into the space.

Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

Wherever we are, we can train as a warrior. The practices of meditation, loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our tools. With the help of these practices, we can uncover the soft spot of bodhichitta.