#meditation

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#doing #hours #meditation #walk #walking

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

— Raul Julia

#life #meditation #only #tend #think

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#premeditation #virtue #worth

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #mindfulness #art

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#nominalism #reality #symbols #art

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#courage #judgment #ki #life-force #meditation

No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What’s more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only “tools” we truly possess in life. ↗

— H. E. Davey

#healing #ki #meditation #nakamura-tempu #philosophy

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#art-of-living #calligraphy #creative #ki #meditation

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work. ↗

— Amedeo Modigliani

#beauty

Watchfulness is the path of immortality: Unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: Those who do not watch are already as dead. Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth, Those who are wise and ever watchful, They feel the joy of watchfulness, The joy of the path of the great. And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation With ever living power advance on the path, They in the end reach NIRVANA, The peace supreme and infinite joy. ~ Buddha ↗

— Juan Mascaró

#meditation #death