Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be still and become aware of ourselves. The small things. The fact that we're still breathing. Our ability to move. The presence of love around and in us. Our strengths. Our opportunities. Our journeys.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.