Quotes About Meditation

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

I read my sentence - steadily . . .

The murmur of a bee

With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain

The silence like an ocean rolled, And broke against my ear.

And only the waves reply.

That silence you heard, when you tried to pray — that's the sound of God listening.

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

Ask the universe for guidance and support. It works big time.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

He clearly indicates throughout his teaching that the time has come when man must make each and every day a spiritual Sabbath by knowing and doing all things in a spiritual light.

You become what you give your attention to.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?

sophistical questions, so we ought to exercise ourselves

Here is the primary means of training yourself: as soon as you leave in the morning, subject whatever you see or hear to close study. Then formulate answers as if they were posing questions.

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

ask yourself how Socrates or Zeno

Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust! He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those

I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time. —Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

Il faut du bruit pour entendre le silence .

Czy w twoim kraju jest pustynia? - Nie. (...) - Wi?c jak sobie radzisz? Zrozumia?em jego pytanie. Znaczy?o: jak sobie radzisz, gdy chcesz porozmy?la?? (...) W odpowiedzi pokaza?em mu niebo... Zrozumia? i u?miechn?? si?, uspokojony: mia?em swoj? cz??? pustyni!