Quotes About Meditation

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Rimuginava continuamente quella preoccupazione da sola e poteva sviscerarla come voleva, ma non riusciva a trovare serenità con nessuna ipotesi.

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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

falling leaves hide the path so quietly

ETERNAL Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of you, let my first impulse be to worship you, let my first word be your Name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.

Almighty God, in this quiet hour I seek communion with thee. From the fret and fever of the day's business, from the world's discordant noises, from the praise and blame of men, from the confused thoughts and vain imaginations of my own heart, I would now turn aside and seek the quietness of thy presence. All day long have I toiled and striven; but now in the stillness of heart and the clear light of thine eternity, I would ponder the pattern my life is weaving.

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.

The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.

Silencio. Apago la linterna frontal. Oscuridad. En la oscuridad, el silencio se hace enciclopédico, condensa todo lo que ha ocurrido en el intervalo entre el entonces y el ahora.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years and allowed readers to catch up.

Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

I maintain that all spirituality must be founded on moral life; but on the other hand, moral life must, so to speak, bathe itself in the ocean of contemplation. Without contemplation, the moral life would tend to degenerate into a dry and narrow humanism. Without the moral life, contemplation would be empty and degenerate into quietism.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would have their heads so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.