T. S. Eliot Quotes

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

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

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.