Quotes About Meditation

The words of prayer are like birds, Ester," he said gently. "They soar.

For is not life solitary, and every thinker lonely?

Philosophy could be severed from life.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

I needed more time to think. And a better brain with which to do the thinking.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of the mind.

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

I think to myself, I play to myself, and nobody knows what I say to myself.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood. —Donald Justice, "The Evening of the Mind

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

In her countless long walks over these one hundred and thirty acres

And I think a lot more than I used to." "I wouldn't recommend thinking too much." "I don't carry it so far as brooding." "Even pondering is sometimes too far.

A novena to the darkness

Sure, I can turn on the TV or music, but even then I can't turn off the quiet, the emptiness.

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I've even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.

Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.

The repetition of weaving the yarn around a needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting.

Addicted to the small comfort I felt when I centered myself and concentrated on creating something beautiful.

People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" —Sally Melville