Quotes About Meditation

A veces es más fácil recuperar los recuerdos perdidos y los sueños olvidados no pensando en ellos.

The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

And . . . do you have any supporting evidence for your explanation of yourself? Certainly. Miles stared thoughtfully into the air, as if about to pull his words from the thinnest part.

The five theological purposes of prayer, I was taught, are service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement.

inventory of night thoughts.

antechamber with the same unsmiling abstraction.

Existem três Silêncios: o primeiro, de palavra; O segundo, de desejo; o terceiro, de pensamento.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

My meditation objective is to be calmer and to assist with my practice in aikido and krav maga. I generally sit between 10 and 20 minutes every day in the morning. What I have found is that if a meditation method works for you, then use it. I have seen some other styles of practice that I have initially thought nonsense, such as focusing on dolphin sounds, Indian shaman chanting, and so on. But if at the end of the day it works for you…then it works.

Your heart sees by its own light. In meditation, adore the subtle fire The light that you see by Is the light that comes from inside.

to shine through and dispel the gloom. Work is a way of engaging with the world. Work is also love and what you give to others. Your to-do list might feel like hell some days, but the light of consciousness wants to illuminate your work as well as your meditation practice.

Non aver paura di fermarti un istante a pensare.

Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries' worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches.

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

exhilarating silence.

off the leaves and straightened my clothes, wishing there was

staring out at the sunlit street. It was a whole lot simpler out

thinking of his own. How did a

Still, a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.

And at night," I added, "a man is too tired. I fall asleep over my books, but we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Shaping a country is not all done with the hands but with the mind as well.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.