Quotes About Meditation

outside the door. He breathed in, and he breathed

She didn't talk. She was thinking. She often was. He knew the signs. He guessed she was processing the information she had received, examining it, turning it this way and that, until she was satisfied.

Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination.

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

He who thinks little errs much…

Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on it's knees.

You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.

SITTING ALONE ON JINGTING SHAN HILL A flock of birds is flying high in the distance, A lonely cloud drifts idly on its own. We gaze at each other, neither growing tired, There is only Jingting Shan.

breathe slowly, deeply. Let your limbs go limp. Relax your neck. Relax your shoulders. Relax your arms: first the fingers, then the wrists, then the lower arms, and then the upper. Relax your feet. Relax your legs.

You remember the 'be quiet' part of the rules? Embrace it.

In contrast, I'm trying to get you to look inward. Focus on steady breathing, slowing your heart rate and lowering your blood pressure, which in turn, eases your nervous system and increases your threshold for pain. Hence, the deep-breathing techniques used for centuries by laboring mothers and yoga devotees.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems