Quotes about Meditation

They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has." ~Blink