Form Quote by John D'Agata

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in…

— Tom Robbins

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

— Walter Bagehot

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew…

— Jack London

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first…

— Colson Whitehead

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than…

— Anonymous

“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in…

— Jacques Barzun

The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or…

— Rajneesh

“He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not be. But…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

— Frederick Delius