Quotes About Meditation

Separe el tiempo de la mente y esta se detendrá

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger

La meditación divina es una poderosa ayuda para engendrar en nosotros un desprecio del mundo y de todas las cosas mundanas

An anxious mind cannot exist in a relaxed body." Body and mind are inextricably related in anxiety.

Although in the West yoga is usually thought of as a series of stretch exercises, it actually embraces a broad philosophy of life and an elaborate system for personal transformation. This system includes ethical precepts, a vegetarian diet, the familiar stretches or postures, specific practices for directing and controlling the breath, concentration practices, and deep meditation.

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The curtain of worldly desire must be ripped in half and I must look into my own soul and overcome the pit of hell. 'I am in hell,' I blurted to her. She almost struck me with her raised withered hand. After that it was banishment. I was sent to a sister house in Ballinasloe, silence and meditation, excused from all manual work, alone with myself, no patients to occupy the welter of my thoughts.

I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon

The philosophers of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from that of God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry, they displayed the strength and weakness of the human understanding. [

Let us read with method, and to propose to ourselves an to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

I think if you have to think about anything very long, you've obviously done yourself an injury, as it were.

The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.

When in doubt, look at the Lord. Lift up your eyes (Numbers 21:4–9). That will be something it will take all your life to master, but what better time to start than now? Still, you can't imagine being an invited worshiper of God.

knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really

Nothing can have so prevalent a power to still the agitation of passion in the breast, nothing is so fit to induce a smooth and easy flow, and a constant evenness of temper, as a frequent application to the throne of grace.

As much as the heavens exceed the earth, so much larger is the field of spiritual meditation than that of all terrestrial concerns.

Life, if we would mark it, is made up of thousands of suggestions from some unseen quarter, prompting us to duty; starting some thought of what is wise and right and just and good; inclining us to thoughtfulness, to meditation, to prayer; making the soul dissatisfied with its present course, and drawing it along in the path of duty, benevolence, and peace.

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.