Quotes About Meditation

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.

Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this.

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. Especially

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving and wandering to and fro. Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.

These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature of the universe, and what is mine—in particular: This unto that what relation it hath: what kind of part, of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.

Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved:

At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.

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Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso.

To watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with them. To keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life below.