Quotes About Meditation

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

You're never so centered on yourself as when you're depressed.

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened? As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning. Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe? To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

Không có góc nhìn cuá»™c s?ng nào t?t hÆ¡n là nhìn nó t? cái ch?t.

Most priests and religious equate prayer with thinking. That is their downfall.

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

Somebody said about most retreats that we begin them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and we end as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)

Charles de Foucauld

One of the biggest enemies to prayer is nervous tension.

Silence is the fruit of occupation.

Something other than ghosts on which his mind can fix.

The quiet is fretful, unnatural.

tapping Zeno's

But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax. Enough of these phantasies.

A single fruit fly in his wine can send a black thread twisting through his mood that lingers for days. Widow Theodora says that Kalaphates needs compassion, that the remedy to every woe is prayer, and after dark Maria kneels in their cell in front of the icon of Saint Koralia, her lips moving silently, sending devotions up past the beams.

that the remedy to every woe is prayer

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the remedy to every woe is prayer

In feeling pudor, a Roman meditating self-destruction did not so much suffer from guilt at some bad thing he had done

Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you'd achieved would one day fit inside.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.