Quotes About Contemplation

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Lo que tienes que aprender es cómo encontrar lo no mundano en todo.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque lo que dicen o hacen le resulta atractivo a tu codicia. Este factor está oculto debido a su mera apariencia. Si dejas de escuchar sus palabras y contemplas el efecto, pronto verás que es así.

Cuando llegue mañana, piensa los pensamientos de mañana.

For he was walking along the road one day when he saw a stone on the ground. It had written on it, "TURN ME OVER AND READ." So he picked it up and looked at the other side. And there was written, "WHY DO YOU SEEK MORE KNOWLEDGE WHEN YOU PAY NO HEED TO WHAT YOU KNOW ALREADY?

El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.

El fruto de la timidez no es ni ganancia ni pérdida.

Ten la naturaleza de un derviche; entonces usa con un gorro elegante.

Circunspección. El propósito original de cultivar la circunspección es que eventualmente uno no necesite tener circunspección. #Sufismo

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

fucking flattery, success, money. I just sit back and suck my thumb.

born born everything is always born thinking about it try not to

flowers are silent silence is silent the mind is a silent flower the silent flower of the world opens

night after night after night stay up all night nothing but your own night

Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma And endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn How to read the love letters sent by The wind and rain, the snow and moon.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Everyday, Jay would sit under a giant elm tree and imagine the adventures his life might bring.

If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

The dead man looked disconsolate. Reasonably so, in the circumstances, Charlie thought.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Out of every one of those who have nothing to say, the nicest are those who keep it for themselves.