Quotes About Meditation

There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.

It's not only deep thinking that requires a calm, attentive mind. It's also empathy and compassion.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book...

She thrust her hands in her pockets and turned her snakestone over and over. She found it helped her think.

I stood there for a long time after he bumped his way over the turf and down the track, until the smell of his exhaust had faded into the trees and soil, and I could hear nothing but the buds. The air smelled like rain.

Hild stared at him, her mind smooth as wax.

If you adjust your conscious filters to the appropriate setting, you can relax and let your subconscious take care of things. It's something I used to be good at.

She let the ebb and flow of the hall wash over her, much as she sometimes sat behind bracken at the edge of a clearing or reeds by the edge of a pool.

She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern.

She could pretend it was enough to sit with a tablet weave between them, as women had for generations, and sometimes talk, sometimes fall into a half trance, mind floating free.

Silence while we both thought our thoughts.

Quiet mouth, bright mind.

She could no more stop thinking than stop breathing.

She closed her eyes, willing her vision to rise from the blood-spattered green mountainside.

Hild slipped away to sit in the moon shadow of a tufted dune with the sheathed knife in her lap and listen to the night breeze in the grass and think about nothing in particular.

Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

Yoga, because it is focused so much on developing our inner mind rather than keeping up with outer names and forms, is all about independent thinking.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. from the SERENITY PRAYER

A clear and quiet heart-mind allows the deep insight necessary to connect with that true divine essence within us.