Quotes About Meditation

Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the nature of human loneliness had seen that only one's own working mind breaks the solitude of the self.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

Para soñar hace falta libertad, soledad...

W. Scott Poole

It is said that in breathing man recapitulates the rhythm of the universe. When the mind is fastened to the rhythm of breathing, it tends to become absorbed and calm. Whether on or off the court, I know of no better way to begin to deal with anxiety than to place the mind on one's breathing process.

The ability to focus the mind is the ability to not let it run away with you. It does not mean not to think—but to be the one who directs your own thinking.

Fighting the mind does not work. What works best is learning to focus it.

The last stroke of midnight dies. All day in the one chair From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged In rambling talk with an image of air: Vague memories, nothing but memories.

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think

You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood

I have come back through the years to this stone hollow encrypted in its own stillness I hear it without listening

he suggested I pray to the Muse get down on my knees and pray right there in the corner and he said he meant it literally

To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.

O nobly-born, listen on distractedly. On the Second Day [of death] the pure form of water will shine as a white light.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.