Quotes About Meditation

O imagination, go away, I intreat thee by the gods, as thou didst come, for I want thee not. But thou art come according to thy old fashion. I am not angry with thee: only go away.

What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.

They seek for themselves private retiring places, as country villages, the sea-shore, mountains; yea thou thyself art wont to long much after such places. But all this thou must know proceeds from simplicity in the highest degree. At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.

So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it's happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The thread was spun long ago, by the oldest cause of all.

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

Let a glance at thyself bring to mind one of the Caesars. Then let the thought strike thee: where are they now? Nowhere, or none can say where. For thus shalt thou habitually look upon human things as mere smoke and as naught; and more than ever so, if thou bethink thee that what has once changed will exist no more throughout eternity. Why strive then and strain?

Accordingly, on every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things? Now a man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after.

To this end there must be continual self-examination. "If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening. In the morning purpose, in the evening discuss the manner, what thou hast been this day, in word, work, and thought.

The properties of the Rational Soul are these: sees itself, dissects itself, moulds itself to its own fill, itself reaps its own fruits.

Or was I created to wrap myself in blankets and keep warm?' 'But this is more pleasant.

Consider each individual thing you do and ask yourself whether to lose it through death makes death itself any cause for fear.

Marcus Aurelius

The point is that you do not love yourself – otherwise you ?[?3?]?would love both your own nature and her purpose for you.

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.

Lo que pasa fuera de mi mente, nada tiene que ver con ella. Mantente en esta disposición y hete ahí en el recto camino.

lose him. To this end and purpose, let all thy prayer be, and see what will be the event.

Al despuntar la aurora, hazte estas consideraciones previas: me encontraré con un indiscreto, un ingrato, un insolente, un mentiroso, un envidioso, un insociable.

Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying to thyself: Now it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire, nor any perturbation at all; but looking at all things I see what is their nature, and I use each according to its value.—Remember this power which thou hast from nature.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the

Qué es, pues, lo único que puede guiarnos en este mundo? Una sola y única cosa: la filosofía.

16. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. Color it with a run of thoughts like these:

29. Examine cada um dos seus atos, separadamente, e pergunte a si mesmo se a morte deve ser temida por lhe privar de tal ação.

The Stoics regarded speculation as a means to an end and that end was, as Zeno put it, to live consistently or as it was later explained, to live in conformity with nature.