Quotes About Meditation

I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

When you marry a triple Virgo, there's no way to meditate the stress away.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

Pay attention to your breathing," she chided. "Not my butt.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

Te quiero dar una indicación concreta. Es esta: sumérgete en el salmo 23, y hazlo durante cuarenta mañanas y cuarenta noches. Lo puedes hacer directamente, leyendo una Biblia, o leyendo o escuchando el pasaje en una computadora, tableta o teléfono celular.

Lord, I thank You for the treasure of the Bible. Please teach my heart to want to dive into its treasures every day.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"—again she laughed—"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.