Quotes About Meditation

Thinking seems to constitute our "default setting" rather than awareness.

paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.

Inner peace exists outside of time.

Focusing on the breath does not mean you should think about your breathing!

There are an infinite number of ways in which people suffer. Therefore, there must be an infinite number of ways in which the Dharma is made available to people." What he meant by Dharma was the universal teachings of the Buddha on suffering and the possibility of liberation from suffering.

interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

to explore the inner country of his own soul.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.

Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.

the first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.

A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone ~~Jonathan Franzen

The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

I think this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in matters that are interesting, not only melancholy. When writing, we have second chances

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Quizá, para el lector, esto pase más bien por una historia europea o inglesa que no de un país tan remoto. Pero debe pararse a meditar que los caprichos de las mujeres no están limitados por frontera ni clima ninguno, y son más uniformes de lo que fácilmente pudiera imaginarse.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.