Quotes About Meditation

Is it thus with all our pleasures? Is suspense always better than enjoyment? Hope than fruition? Is it the rich who in very truth are the poor? Have we not both perhaps exaggerated feeling by giving to imagination too free a rein? There are times when this thought freezes me. Shall I tell you why? Because I am meditating another visit to the bottom of the garden — without Griffith. How far could I go in this direction?

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.

Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.

Let us see God before man every day.

It is much to be feared that "we are weak in the pulpit because we are weak in the closet.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

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When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.

Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life.

Rain says a noise: shh. You can hear it when it comes down. It is God telling us to be quiet.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

Extraordinary individuals stand out in the extent to which they reflect—often explicitly—on the events of their lives, large as well as small.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do... or I don't, but its peaceful... only me... no worries.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

Sages seek from mind, not from the Buddha; fools

When mental processes (hsin) arise, then do all dharmas (phenomena) spring forth; and when mental processes cease, then do all dharmas cease likewise.' The

Look within! The secret is inside you.

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

Excuse me for a moment, will ye. I think I have to talk to the river,' he said unsteadily and flopped over the side-rail.