Quotes About Meditation

If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Help us. Pay attention and lead us out of our confusion.

Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north—just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.

this quiet place exists as we exist, here on the earth. It just is. That is where the best writing comes from and what we must connect with in order to write well.

the back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we also touch the place where there are no feelings, no perceptions, there is no you, no person doing any writing. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Anything you do fully is an alone journey.

14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present.

Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

They sat cross-legged on the floor, short of lotus, lay back between table and couch. In the upset zone known as not yet there they reconvened, she unexpected harmony's ghost, another she recondite solace's regret. . . They sat on the floor sipping herb as we looked on, incense an androgyne funk, flesh crevice, book of anabatic recess

At the end of the day, to sit in my garden is to finally awaken

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

was born a Quaker,

minister's gallery

This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.

The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.

assumia, em casa, no ônibus, no escritório, um ar de estátua no próprio monumento.

All that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention. Simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness. The power of attention shows itself the sure guarantee of an inner force.

He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted.