Quotes About Meditation

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Silence is God's first language.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

You have to know the difference between what's of the world and what's of God. You have to want to know what he has to say. That's why it's best to pray in silence. He waits for you.

Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

Pure awareness transcends thinking.

For maybe the first time in years, you're noticing in real time how the mind creates tension in the body. Soon you'll notice that the body also creates tension in the mind in a self-sustaining loop.

Meditation is a simple practice that gains its power from repetition. It's only through this that we can become aware of the repeating patterns in our own minds.

Meditation is not a religion. Mindfulness is simply a method of mental training.

You cannot force the mind. And if you try to, you won't like what comes of it.

Ajattele ajatuksesi loppuun, ja tapahdu maailman tahdissa, niin sinussa on rauha.

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Like a dolphin, breath the air of prayer. Dolphins are air breathers, but water dwellers. We are prayer breathers, but earth dwellers.

To think of you is to pray for you.