Quotes About Meditation

Writing is prayer.

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

The amount of quiet I need does not exist in the world, from which it follows that no one ought to need so much quiet.

I write to close my eyes.

How lonely it is here, and how well it suits you.

Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves and is ready to release what lies deeper.

I must be alone a great deal. What I have achieved is only a result of being alone.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

I hide away from people not because I want to live in peace but because I want to perish in peace.

Rolar infinitamente, os olhos fechados oferecendo-se a não sei que olhar aberto.

Gleichzeitig aber vergaß er nicht, sich zwischendurch daran zu erinnern, daß viel besser als verzweifelte Entschlüsse ruhige und ruhigste Überlegung sei.

A veces también se tomaba el excesivo trabajo de empujar una butaca hasta la ventana, y, trepando por el alféizar, permanecía de pie en la butaca y apoyado en la ventana, sumido, sin duda, en sus recuerdos, pues antaño le interesaba siempre mirar por la ventana aquella.

you should talk less in general;

Les avocats sont bien loin de vouloir introduire dans le système judiciaire quelque amélioration que ce soit, alors que tout accusé, même le plus simple d'esprit – et c'est très caractéristique – commence toujours, dès son premier contact avec la justice, par méditer des projets de réforme, gaspillant ainsi un temps et des forces qu'il pourrait employer beaucoup plus utilement.

Nie jest konieczne, by? wyszed? z domu. Pozosta? przy stole i s?uchaj. Nawet nie s?uchaj, czekaj tylko. Nawet nie czekaj, b?dz ca?kiem cicho i sam. ?wiat sam si? przed tob? ods?oni, nie mo?e by? inaczej, b?dzie wi? si? przed tob? w ekstazie.

God, how much more profitable it would be if the Thinker could learn from the Drunk!

Prayer," Kafka notes, brings "its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence.

It's just that I belong in the quietest quiet, that's what's right for me

I shall move somewhere into the woods and try to improve myself.

Taking walks and observing the field mice.

No es necesario que salgas de casa. Quédate en tu mesa y escucha. Ni siquiera escuches, espera solamente. Ni siquiera esperes, quédate solo y en silencio. El mundo llegará a ti para hacerse desenmascarar; no puede dejar de hacerlo, se prosternará extático a tus pies.