Psychology Quote by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.”

— Victor Hugo

“Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds…

— Mary Shelley

“When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, In the…

— Bhagavad Gita

“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers…

— Herman Wouk

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought…

— Victor Hugo

“Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar