Quotes About Meditation

A quien como yo, así, viviendo no sabe tener vida, ¿qué le queda sino, como a mis pocos pares, la renuncia por modo y la contemplación por destino?

Ni brisa, ni gente que interrumpa lo que no pienso.

E eu que só oiço o ruído calado do sangue que há na minha vida dos dois lados da cabeça.

Right now I have so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say that I suddenly feel tired, and I've decided to write no more, think no more. I'll let the fever of saying put me to sleep instead, and with closed eyes I'll stroke, as if petting a cat, all that I might have said.

To attain the satisfactions of the mystic state without having to endure its rigours; to be the ecstatic follower of no god, the mystic or epopt* with no initiation; to pass the days meditating on a paradise you don't believe in – all of this tastes good to the soul that knows what it means to know nothing.

I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower.

I also have my crochet. It dates from when I began to think. Stitch on stitch forming a whole without a whole … A cloth, and I don't know if it's for a garment or for nothing. A soul, and I don't know if it's for feeling or living. What

To observe oneself as one observes nature; to gaze on one's impressions as one would on a field — that is true wisdom.

The vegetal academy of silences

Exist? destul? metafizic? în a nu te gândi la nimic.

I like to think, because I know it won't be long before I stop thinking.

Andei sozinho na praia Andei na praia a pensar No jeito da tua saia Quando lá estiveste a andar.

I've come to the realization that I'm always thinking and listening to two things at once.

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.

Estou hoje lúcido como se não existisse.

I wonder if a man meditating slowly inside a fast-moving car is moving fast or slowly.

And, along with all the other great unfortunates, I've always believed it better to think than to live.

O essencial é saber ver, Saber ver sem estar a pensar, Saber ver quando se vê, E nem pensar quando se vê Nem ver quando se pensa.   Mas isso (tristes de nós que trazemos a alma vestida!), Isso exige um estudo profundo, Uma aprendizagem de desaprender E

Vivere è non pensare.

The more I meditate on our capacity for self-deception, the more my certainties crumble, slipping through my fingers as fine sand. And when this meditation becomes a feeling that clouds my mind, then the whole world appears to me as a mist made of shadows, a twilight of edges and corners, a fiction of the interlude,* a dawn that never becomes morning.

Sleep is fusion with God, Nirvana, however it be called.

Saber interponerse constantemente entre uno mismo y las cosas es el grado más alto de sabiduría y prudencia.

There's metaphysics enough in not thinking about anything.

To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.