Quotes About Meditation

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

I need time now to consider the future that is a past within my mind.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Jessica placed her palms against her cheeks, began the ritual breathing that stilled emotion and clarified the mind, then bent forward from the waist in the devotional exercise that prepared the body for the mind's demands. Paul's choice of this Cave of Birds as his command post could not be questioned, she knew.

Možda ja i jesam jedina vjerska svijest u Carstvu, zato što sam istinski sam...pa se zato i ne mogu moliti.

One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A

The thought hung like a sine wave in Leto's mind:

And he wondered: What is the now?

Ahora el silencio era tan profundo que casi sentía el fluir de la lechosa y azulada luz de luna sobre los saguaros centinelas y los matojos espinosos.

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning. For a few moments he allowed himself merely to resonate, making no demands, asking no questions.

out of prayers older than Adam

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

I love the rain. It helps me think.

The whole of this discourse, from the fourteenth chapter of St. John to the seventeenth, should be read and read again: everything is in it.

tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions