Quotes About Meditation

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I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.

gave him a look. Okay. Only to himself

we don't sit enough with our grief and let our bodies process it.

The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Papá siempre decía que lo que le fascinaba de la pesca era la tranquilidad. De pie en la orilla, rodeado de un bosque de pinos o con medio cuerpo dentro del agua, decía que encontraba la posición perfecta para meditar o simplemente para poner la mente en blanco. Yo ahora sospecho que lo de le gustaba era el silencio. Cada minuto con la boca cerrada era un tiempo ganado a las cosas de las que no quería hablar

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.

To appreciate quiet one must accept less excitement.

I am consciously surrendering conciousness.

La Solitude est un condition necessaire de la liberte.

Whatever lessens suffering in yourself and others, that is right. Whatever increases suffering, that is wrong. The answer is within you. When you are free of pride and prejudice, when you are calm and attentive, a light will shine within you. Through meditation and through being mindful you will find your own knowledge of rightness. You will be your own light.

In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation prizes is the world.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!

You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?

He meditated on his weakness.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

Une vie de sagesse est une vie de contemplation et d'actions entremêlées.

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

The highest achievement of the human being as a thinking being is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.