Quotes About Meditation

No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.

Little has happened to me in my lifetime, but I have read much.

el vago rosa trémulo que se ve con los ojos cerrados

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

El tiempo está viviéndome. (Jactancia de quietud - Luna de enfrente)

Me negué, con suave energía, a discutir el Aleph; lo abracé, al despedirme, y le repetí que el campo y la serenidad son dos grandes médicos

Não fale, a menos que você possa aprimorar o silêncio.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless.

Dresser des listes est l'une des plus anciennes activités du poète.

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Let me have clear thoughts, clear speech, and a good path to walk this day," I prayed as I watched the rising sun.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state

The contemplation of the life thus should be undertaken as a meditation on one's own immanent divinity, not as a prelude to precise imitation, the lesson being, not "Do thus and be good," but "Know this and be God.

The dance posture of the God may be visualized as the symbolic syllable AUM which is the verbal equivalent of the four states of consciousness and their fields of experience. (A: waking consciousness; U: dream consciousness; M: dreamless sleep; the silence around the sacred syllable is the Unmanifest Transcendent.) The God is thus within the worshiper as well as without. p109

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

I am Shiva – this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas . . . Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us . . . all the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.

Description of the Six Bodily Centers of the Unfolding Serpent Power (?a?-cakra-nir?pana), which has been

transcendent means to "transcend," to go past duality. Everything in the field of time and space is dual.

The body is not the Bodhi tree. The mind, no mirror bright. Since nothing is there, on what should dust alight?

In Buddhist systems, more especially those of Tibet, the meditation Buddhas appear in two aspects, one peaceful and the other wrathful. If you are clinging fiercely to your ego and its little temporal world of sorrows and joys, hanging on for dear life, it will be the wrathful aspect of the deity that appears. It will seem terrifying. But the moment your ego yields and gives up, that same meditation Buddha is experienced as a bestower of bliss.

Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!