You must learn

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

~ Indira Ghandi

Be like water

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."

~ Bruce Lee

Take pity on me

Take pity on me, O my Lord, Merciful to the meek. I am a beggar, begging for the dust of the feet of the Holy. Servant Nanak begs for this gift, let me meditate on the Lord, forever and ever.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The flowering

The flowering of love is meditation.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Who looks

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.

~Carl Jung

My brother and I

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

~Kristin Hersh

I get into

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

~John Astin

Only words

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

~Alan Watts

The only Zen

The only Zen you'll find on mountain tops
is the Zen you bring up there with you.

~Alan Watts

For the rest of my life

For the rest of my life I will reflect on what light is.
—~EINSTEIN

Only in quiet waters

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

-- Hans Margolius

Meditation brings wisdom

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

-- Buddha

I learned

"I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

-- Brenda Ueland

Wherever you go

"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."

-- Deepak Chopra

The affairs of the world

"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."

-- Milarepa

Meditation helps me feel

"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."

-- Wayne Muller

All man's miseries

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

-- Blaise Pascal

When doing becomes

When DOING becomes infused with the timeless quality of BEING that is Success.
Unless Being flows into doing, unless you are present, you lose yourself in whatever you do. You also lose yourself in thinking, as well as in your reactions to what happens externally.

~Eckhart Tolle

At your most daring

At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work--the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

~Jean Shinoda Bolen

When people start to meditate

When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they're going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.

It's a bit like saying, “If I jog, I'll be a much better person.” “If I could only get a nicer house, I'd be a better person.” If I could meditate and calm down, I'd be a better person.”…

... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, Meditation, and can be found in its entirety here: When people start to meditate