Quotes About Meditation

Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching (I recommend the Red Pine translation), and started swimming from there. Excellent

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated—the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

when we have cultivated a healthy space within, we can hear, see and feel our intuition more clearly.

The inability to access our intuition is primarily caused by the excess of clutter in our minds and in our lifestyles.

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

To enjoy happiness, therefore, all our mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in deep sleep.

we're all thinkin' it.

Come sit down beside me, I said to myself, And although it doesn't make sense, I held my own hand As a small sign of trust And together I sat on the fence.

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote

The mind is everything. What you think you become." ? Buddha

Your mind lives in fear and regret but your body can only live right now, in this moment. So, take some deep breaths and live in your body. It's a safer place to be than in your head.

Whenever I am confused about what to do in life, I quietly sit down and think about where I have been and compare this to where I might want to go in future. The answer to the next step just comes to me from inside myself.

country highway. He sensed that he was

or works along its rim with busy fingers like a string of prayer beads.

I'll keep these same photographs pinned to a wall above my desk as tiny parables.

Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

the library all alone, reading

The goal of the practice is not happiness... the goal of the practice is freedom.