Quotes About Meditation

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

Of everything thou must consider from whence it came, of what things it doth consist, and into what it will be changed: what will be the nature of it, or what it will be like unto when it is changed; and that it can suffer no hurt by this change.

No que toca a tua sede por livros, apressa-te em repudiá-la para que não venhas a morrer em murmúrios e resmungos, mas sim de uma maneira propícia e autêntica e agradecendo de coração aos deuses.8

2.12 Es propio de la facultad inteligente fijarse en cómo desaparece rápidamente todo, las propias personas en el universo, los recuerdos de esas personas en el tiempo; en

No hay nada más desventurado que quien recorre todo en derredor, explora »lo que está debajo de la tierra«, dice[193], e investiga en las almas de los que están cerca mediante el uso de indicios[194], sin darse cuenta de que basta estar sólo ante el espíritu divino que está dentro de uno mismo y ser su servidor de verdad. Este

not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily

the Imitation of Christ.

Turn your attention within, for the fountain of all that is good lies within, and it is always ready to pour forth, if you continually delve in.

And is there anything preferable to thought itself -- to logic, to understanding? Think of their surefootedness. Their fluent stillness.

Basta con poner tu atención y deseo en ser bueno contigo mismo en cualquier cosa que hagas. Recuerda

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. But then thou must also avoid being carried about the other way.

No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation than that into his own mind, especially if he can dip into thoughts there which put him at immediate and complete ease: and by ease I simply mean a well-ordered life. So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself. The doctrines you will visit there should be few and fundamental, sufficient at one meeting to wash away all your pain and send you back free of resentment at what you must rejoin.

It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections. What is now the object of my mind, is it fear, or suspicion, or lust, or any such thing? To do nothing rashly without some certain end; let that be thy first care.

Your mind is your only strength; your reason is your only power.

and shalt respect thy mind only, and that divine part of thine, and this shall be thine only fear

spend not thy time in thinking, what such a man doth, and to what end: what he saith, and what he thinks, and what he is about, and such other things or curiosities, which make a man to rove and wander from the care and observation of that part of himself, which is rational, and overruling

that my life wanted some redress and cure.

32. You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind—things that exist only there—and clear out space for yourself: … by comprehending the scale of the world … by contemplating infinite time … by thinking of the speed with which things change—each part of every thing; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite time before; the equally unbounded time that follows.

In camp before the Quadi he dates the first book of his Meditations, and shows how he could retire within himself amid the coarse clangour of arms.

33. How the mind conducts itself. It all depends on that. All the rest is within its power, or beyond its control—corpses and smoke.

as if you were dying right now, despise your flesh. A mess of blood, pieces of bone, a woven tangle of nerves, veins, arteries. Consider what the spirit is: air, and never the same air

Look inward. Don't let the true nature or value of anything elude you.

Fijar y describir siempre el objeto cuya imagen se presenta al espi­ritu, de suerte que se le ve placidamente, tal como es por naturaleza, desnudo, bajo diversos aspectos y decirse asi mismo su nombre y los nombres de los elementos que lo conforman y en los que se desintegrara. Nada en efecto contribuye a la grandeza del animo como poder comprobar con orden y exactitud cada uno de los objetos que representan la vida y verlos siempre de tal conformidad

God sees all our directing minds stripped of their material vessels, their husks and their dross. His contact is only between his own intelligence and what has flowed from him into these channels of ours. If you train yourself to do the same, you will be rid of what so much distracts you. Hardly likely, is it, that one blind to the enveloping flesh will spend his time eyeing clothes, houses, reputation, or any other such trappings and stage scenery?