Quotes About Meditation

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

I think the genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait until dark to be heard. During

Het zou goed zijn als we structuur verleende aan ons innerlijke leven en onze beste gedachten te versterken, om tegengewicht te bieden aan constante afleidingen en versnippering.

we will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.

It is the task of philosophy to let you down gently.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

Don't go to pieces. Go to peace.

Alone . . . alone . . . It echoed in her mind as she sat there. Under the weight of the loneliness Han's voice seemed to fade, and Maz Kanata's as well, until there was nothing surrounding her but a silence as deep and profound as the distant reaches of space itself.

The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.

asked, 'Lord, does he or she who sees the vision perceive it through soul or spirit?' He answered, 'One perceives through neither soul nor spirit but by mind, which mediates between both; visions are mental.

But for people like Erasmus (with his "cry of thankful joy" on spying a fragment of print) or Lynne Sharon Schwartz ("Can I get back to my books now?"), books are the natural and inevitable and permanent means of being absorbed in something other than the self.

Aku ingin mendekati waktu karena aku ingin mendekati Tuhan.

Don't we owe that young woman, and all of our children, a world in which their contemplative lives are valued and supported? Don't we owe it to ourselves?

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Nothing is every quiet, except for fools.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Then he gave himself over to deep and earnest prayer, and after each petition he raised his eyes and looked to the east. And the east lightened and lightened, till he knew that the time was not far off. And when he expected it, he rose to his feet and took off his hat and laid it down on the earth, and clasped his hands before him. And while he stood there the sun rose in the east.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

The classics can console. But not enough.

I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune , and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world , and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts .

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

Arjuna, ignore the onslaught of external stimuli and focus between your eyebrows, regulating inhalation and exhalation at the nostrils, to liberate yourself from fear, desire and anger, and discover me within you, I who receive and consume every offering of your yagnas.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, verses 27 to 29 (paraphrased).

We knot our imagination to fear to creat aham. Tapasya and yagna are two tools that can help us unknot the mind, outgrow fear and discover atma, our true self.