Quotes of: Meditation Keyword

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Mike Oldfield

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

David Suchet

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

Sharon Salzberg

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Kailash Kher

Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.

Love

Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash

Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will for Christ. No supernatural power is required to pray prayers, sign cards, walk ai...

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be flat like a painting. In contrast, they should be apparent, yet not truly existent, like a rainbow in the sky or...

Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoy...

God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your...

God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to ge...

God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself aga...

Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the int...

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to b...

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do;...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 ...

At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

The idea persists that faith is a remnant of an ancient way of life, a way of knowing that asks for unthinking acceptance of a belief system or adherence to specific dogma. This may be the case for some spiritual traditions, but the Buddha insisted t...

Ways of Enlightenment