Meditation Quotes - Page 64

For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay more attention to when and where I do that thinking, to be attentive to the settings in which meditation takes place. Sometimes the disconnect between the mind and the world is itself revealing, but in 'The Whole World Is Gone,' I think the setting deeply complements, indeed elicits and allows, a certain set of realizations to occur.

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred to as 'sitting in the silence.' Whenever you want to reach Spirit from this side of life, start by sitting in the silence.

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.