Quotes About Meditation

Several times a day I would make certain that I was completely relaxed mentally and physically. I relaxed my body by speaking to it as follows, 'My feet are relaxed, my ankles are relaxed, my legs are relaxed, my abdominal muscles are relaxed, my heart and lungs are relaxed, my head is relaxed, my whole being is completely relaxed.' After about five minutes I would be in a sleepy drowsy state, and then I affirmed the following truth, 'The

Man is what he thinks all day long.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered

Una persona es lo que piensa todo el día.

The American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Know that your train of thought is being engraved in your deeper mind, and it becomes a conditioned state of consciousness.

ideas could be conveyed to the subconscious mind by repetition, faith and expectancy.

Read the 23rd, 27th, and 91st Psalms, the 11th chapter of Hebrews, the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, and other great texts of the Bible before going to sleep.

repeated the statements of my major premise slowly, quietly, and lovingly several times a day. I knew that they were sinking deep down into my subconscious mind. I was convinced by the laws of mind that results must follow.

Debe elegir felicidad. La felicidad es un hábito. Es un buen hábito meditar con frecuencia en cuantas cosas haya verdaderas, puras, amables y buenas; si alguna virtud hay, si hay alguna cosa digna de alabanza, piense en ella.

Milarepa was. "He's the Buddhist meditation master who lives in those mountains. He has tamed his mind, so he is always comfortable. He knows his own nature, so he doesn't need confirmation from others. He is completely content with whatever he has, so he never needs anything. That makes him the richest man in the world.

Up up and quit your books' is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions -- as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.

That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders"—including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed—"who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them.

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing She thought, That's a comfort!

Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

How alone this was going to be.

Much of the time he lay part-dressed on his bed, sipping gin, and thinking, and thinking, - though what it was, of which he thought, he seemed not to know.

For the past few days, she had been praying and meditating upon what to do and she had decided she must do nothing, for it was she who had made the mistake and not the boy and she must not bear witness against him.

No se puede ejercer la memoria hasta que uno se ha retirado de la fuente del recuerdo.

so perhaps nothing was wrong.

Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT