Quotes About Meditation

One of the first things Miriam told me about was how to worry. She wanted me to worry for five minutes straight, two times a day. She said I should sit quietly somewhere, maybe with a piece of paper and some colored pencils, and just worry, one time in the morning and once at night (but not right before bed). And if my worry showed up at any other time, like during school or at Angus's house, Miriam said I should tell it, "Go away, and I'll see you later". -Bea

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

I am breathing in and making my whole body calm and at peace. I am breathing out and making my whole body calm and at peace. This is how one practices.

She returned to her slow dance with the waves.

The process of meditation involves gradually shedding our multitude of opinions-built-upon-opinions of how things are, and becoming more and more aware of the literal, non-conceptual substratum of all our thinking—the substratum which is reality itself.

We read in Ecclesiasticus also: "In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.

As the bee knows how to find honey in flowers, the gift of wisdom draws lessons of divine goodness from everything.

It is the purification of the intellect which prepares for contemplation.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.

I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone, so even now we can learn from experience that a similar meditation, although incomparably less perfect, allows us to enjoy the greatest happiness we are capable of feeling in this life.

to live well you must live unseen

Therefore from the fact alone that I know that I exist and that, at the same time, I notice absolutely nothing else that belongs to my nature apart from the single fact that I am a thinking thing, I correctly conclude that my essence consists in this alone, that I am a thinking thing.

Não há nada que dominemos inteiramente a nao ser os nossos pensamentos.

Yesterday's meditation raised doubts—ones that are too serious to be ignored—which I can see no way of resolving. I feel like someone who is suddenly dropped into a deep whirlpool that tumbles him around so that he can neither stand on the bottom nor swim to the top. However, I shall force my way up, and try once more to carry out the project that I started on yesterday.

Ich denke also bin ich (cogit ergo sum)

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self love."