Quotes about Meditation
In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
But meditation is not just about sitting, either. It is about stopping and being present, that is all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
No matter what people are doing, they are much less happy when their minds are wandering than when their minds are focused
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Thinking seems to constitute our "default setting" rather than awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Focusing on the breath does not mean you should think about your breathing!
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I am Shiva — this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas . . . Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us . . . all the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.
- Joseph Campbell
I am Shiva — this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas . . . Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us . . . all the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.
- Joseph Campbell
Moyers: {TS] Eliot speaks about the still point of the turning world, where motion and stasis are together, the hub where the movement of time and the stillness of eternity are together.
- Joseph Campbell
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
- AW Tozer
To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
- Abraham Kuyper
Walk in Christ's light daily through fidelity to personal and liturgical prayer, nourished by meditation on the inspired word of God.. Make the daily celebration of the Eucharist the center of your life.
- Pope Benedict XVI