Quotes About Meditation

Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.

Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.

I like the physical part, but I'm also drawn to the spiritual. For me, yoga is not just a workout—it's about working on yourself.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Oh, there are times, Miss Norah, when I talk to myself--which is bad--or yarn to old Turpentine, my snake, just to hear the sound of words again.

She always imagined the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Blessed Mother as points of light in the center of her heart, and as she prayed, the light expanded, flowing through her body and soul, smoothing away knots of guilt and sorrow and fear until her whole being glowed with harmony.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer.

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author

My mind is so serene but concentrated and I am watching it like a cat a mouse. I

Recently I realized that silent is an anagram for listen. It is the voice that comes from the silence that the writer or artist must listen to.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited for that sense of the presence of a Higher Power that I'd heard of. I chastised myself for not being open to real spiritual experience. It was one of the loneliest things I've ever done.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Reading is an act of contemplation . . . an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction . . . it returns us to a reckoning with time.2 —David Ulin

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But, Lumawoo, look. No motto.

Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

Señor, concédeme serenidad para aceptar todo aquello que no puedo cambiar, fortaleza para cambiar lo que soy capaz de cambiar, y sabiduría para entender la diferencia.

Massimo Pigliucci

La práctica del estoicismo implica una combinación dinámica de reflexionar sobre preceptos teóricos, de leer textos inspiradores y de practicar la meditación, el mindfulness y otros ejercicios espirituales.