Quotes About Meditation

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars")

We practice biblical meditation by noting, quoting, and devoting ourselves to whatever passage of Scripture we're reading or studying, based on the premise that God's Word is flawless, faultless, and unfailing. Meditation helps and heals the mind while shoring up the soul. It lessens anxiety, reduces stress, and generates peace.

If a man's stomach has been filled by eating greens and other vegetables, although the most precious dainties with exquisite tastes should be given him, he cannot swallow them, he must first get rid of a few portions of the greens; so in reading, the same is true of the mixed thoughts which distract the mind, which are about the dusty affairs of a vulgar world.

Puis, balançant la tête de droite à gauche, elle chantonna, comme s'il s'agissait d'une comptine : — Une dans le cœur, une dans la tête, et tout s'arrête.

A wise man listens when he has no words to speak.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Spiritual asphyxia menaces he who does not practice some form of prayer; he who practices it receives vivifying benediction in some form.

Go where the peace is.

He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses it, cares for it and regulates its behavior. In due course he leaves it. One of the powers conferred by entry into the fourth room is the capacity to die at will.

Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

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she focused on prayer—the most important activity of any Christian.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

His normal state was silence.

Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.