Quotes About Meditation

prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

It gets sort of Zen after a while," Butters said brightly. "Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.

I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

We wizards are terrific at brooding.

Miles nodded his head, but said nothing more of the Marat. "You've much on your mind.

You don't exactly sleep, in situations like that. You close your eyes and stop moving, and then a lot of complicated things happen in your brain.

Toward a Life of Prayer

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

I write to know what I think.

In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In

This is a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning.

anise tea. "Meditation turns us on," Sandy says. He has a shaved head and the kind of cherubic face usually seen in newspaper photographs of mass murderers.

but spend the afternoon in total silence, which involves not only not talking but also not reading, not writing, and not smoking. Even on discussion days, this silence is invoked for regular twenty-minute or hour intervals, a regimen described by one student as "invaluable for clearing your mind of personal hangups" and by Miss Baez as "just about the most important thing about the school.

Yes, and the

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

When you're hurting deeply, you go inward.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

Make time to be still.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.