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Meditation Quotes - Page 34

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

William Jacob Holland (1904). “The moth book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America”

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (1989). “Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book”, p.12, Stanford University Press

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.105, Macmillan

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.82, Workman Publishing

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.10, Workman Publishing

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.37, Harmony

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!

"Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you'' by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2013.