Quotes About Meditation

And so meditation rests on the wager that if you can simply break the tyranny of your ordinary awareness, the rest will begin to unfold itself. At first when you begin a practice of meditation, it feels like a place you go to. You may think of it as "my inner sanctuary" or "my place apart with God." But as the practice becomes more and more established in you so that this inner sanctuary begins to flow out into your life, it becomes more and more a place you come from.

No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live." "You ain't got a life?" "Thieves took it.

Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life—relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized—are essential.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

James thought he might learn from Daniel how to be alone and yet not lonely, how to be self-sufficient. One must not become selfish of course (Daniel was not selfish), but it would be a useful lesson to learn how to find happiness inside oneself.

The idea of writing down one's difficulties and perplexities is not a new one. Great men have found it valuable in clearing their minds and helping them to wise and deliberate judgment—why shouldn't I, in my smaller way, find a solution to my difficulties in the same manner? My mind needs clearing, God knows, and if pen and paper will help me to clear it, I shall not grudge the time or the labor involved.

I've always found the rain very calming.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

you stood still.

The very place in scripture where we so often stop reading is precisely the place we need to deeply listen.

God wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

several weeks ago. I told myself

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself. (Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-l-khayr)