Quotes About Meditation

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

Around three A.M., I left my bed and went to my desk, my head vibrant with the static of unelaborated thought.

La mia mente divaga, - mi disse, un po' come se io fossi un medico passato di lí per informarmi sui suoi strani e inquietanti nuovi sintomi. - Arrivato in fondo alla pagina cerco di riassumere ciò che ho letto, e la mia mente è vuota: sono rimasto seduto in poltrona senza far niente. Certo, ho sempre letto i libri con la penna in mano, ma ora scopro che se non lo faccio, anche quando leggo una rivista, la mia attenzione non resta concentrata su quello che ho davanti a me.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.