Quotes About Meditation

Well, I keep my book Heart Thoughts with me because it's easy to read a few short passages in one sitting. I also have Alan Cohen's A Deep Breath of Life nearby. And right now I'm rereading Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It.

New thought patterns (positive affirmations) can heal and relax your body.

Nadie piensa en tu mente sino tú.

sit at least once a day with my arms stretched out to the side and say, "I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe." It gives me a feeling of expansion.

Most unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room.

Don't believe everything you think," said Gamache, before releasing the hand and opening the door. "Pema Chödrön. A Buddhist nun.

But he also knew praying was more to steady the person than inform the deity.

And yet,' Gamache continued in a pleasant voice, 'isn't that what's often taught in meditation? Not the absence of emotion, or swallowing them, but not allowing them to run the show?

Thinking is an action,

Young Langlois had sat down and gathered that power to him. The power that came from having information, knowledge, thoughts, and a calm place to collect them.

He had a lot to ponder and he knew that everything is solved by walking.

It was really a meditation on what he'd learned watching these people. What he'd learned about them and the nature of humanity and what he'd learned about himself. It was a remarkable study of arrogance and humility and, above all, forgiveness.

wondered why she chose her isolated

That night, after Vespers, this nameless monk sat by precious candle-light, staring at the psalms written so carefully on the vellum. Then he dipped his quill in ink and drew the very first musical note.

absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

Greek for 'breath.' The monks who first wrote down the chants believed that the deeper we breathe the more we draw God into ourselves. And there's no deeper breath than when we're singing. Have you ever noticed that the deeper you breathe, the calmer you get?" the monk asked.

A man naturally given to action, Jean-Guy had come late to the value of pausing. "It is solved by walking," Gamache had often said. In the middle of a stressful case, the Chief would leave his office, and instead of doing something, he'd go for a walk.

This isn't inaction, this is simply a deep breath.

I me memorize a lot of poetry, too, so I'l have something to be saying to myself on long walks. A poem to repeat, either aloud or silently, will help you over a hill or on a long mile as surely as a neighbour who stops his team and gives you a lift.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

If you put junk in, you're going to get junk out; but if you find inspiration, you're going to come up with things that you would never think of otherwise. Your lungs breathe even when you don't think about it. Your heart pumps without your help. Your brain is working on ideas and solutions even when you don't realize it.

También suelo apoyar la cabeza en los escritorios de madera y los escucho, porque hacen ruidos similares a las ramas mecidas por el viento, como si todavía fueran árboles

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.