Quotes About Meditation

Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them.

The kriya yogi mentally directs his life energy to revolve upward and downward, around the six spinal centres (medullary, cervical, dorsal, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal plexuses) which correspond to the twelve astral signs of the zodiac, the symbolic Cosmic Man. One-half minute of revolution of energy around the sensitive spinal cord of man effects subtle progress in his evolution; that half-minute of kriya equals one year of natural spiritual unfoldment.

Yoga is only a means and not the end.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

The guru is in you.

An effective method of meditation leads us to an experience of profound stillness, an inner silence that defies description. It is an emptiness that is full with peace, creativity and happiness. It is the natural condition of our mind beyond the processes of our thinking.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

disquisitions

suggestions

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

I want to be alone.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

I will not become analytical about my work.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.

Je suis venu me réfugier ici au fond d'un château, comme dans un monastère.

Human life is sadly fertile in situations where, as a result of either too much meditation or of some catastrophe, our thoughts seem to hold to nothing; they have no substance, no point of departure, and the present has no hooks by which to hold to the past or fasten on the future.

What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.

Godefroid, lost in reflection, stared into his fire. He was absorbed in meditation on this great misery which contained so many different miseries, and yet within which he could see the ineffable joys of the many triumphs of paternal and filial love; they were gems shining in the blackness of the pit.