Quotes About Meditation

time-out here on the edge of ourselves.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

I withdrew from active work among deficients, and began a more thorough study of the works of Itard and Séguin. I felt the need of meditation. I did a thing which I had not done before, and which perhaps few students have been willing to do,—I translated into Italian and copied out with my own hand, the writings of these men, from beginning to end, making for myself books as the old Benedictines used to do before the diffusion of printing.

Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is letting God talk to you." —Yogi Bhajan

La gente se vuelve rara cuando pasa demasiado tiempo sola

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

I called her name into the fold between night and day.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

When your thoughts are fastened to the Word of God, you are involved in a form of meditation, and the truth will both keep and sustain you.

Learn to ignore everything

If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.