Quotes About Meditation

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude. ( Letter to Mimi Romanelli , May 11, 1910)

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.

I would like to step out of my heart And go walking beneath the enormous sky.

Think... of the world which you carry within yourself... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people.

But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths.

It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.

Kendi içine yürümek ve saatler boyu kimselere rastlamamak. Ä°ÅŸte eriÅŸilmesi gereken ÅŸey bizler için

turn towards great and serious subjects, next to which irony becomes small and helpless.

Nobody can advise and help you, nobody. There is only one single means. Go inside yourself. Discover the motive that bids you write; examine whether it sends its roots down to the deepest places of your heart, confess to yourself whether you would have to die if writing were denied you. This before all: ask yourself in the quietest hour

I would finally just like to advise you to grow through your development quietly and seriously; you can interrupt it in no more violent manner than by looking outwards, and expecting answer from outside to questions which perhaps only your innermost feeling in your most silent hour can answer.

Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.

Weltinnenraum," "world-inner-space". It is most often used to speak that essential space within the heart of a human being.

I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that patience which, disproportionate to ordinary life which seems to bid us haste, puts us in touch with all that surpasses us.

Think, dear sir, of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking what you will; {...} only be attentive to that which rises up in you and set it above everything that you observe about you. What goes on in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them.

Solitude is not merely a matter of being alone: it is a territory to be entered and occupied.

It must be immense, this silence, in which sounds and movements have room

No one can advise and assist you, no one. There is only one way: go into yourself.