Quotes About Meditation

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

Efface imagination! Cease to be pulled as a puppet by thy passions. Isolate the present. Recognize what befalls either, thee or another. Dissect and analyze all that comes under thy ken into the Causal and the Material. Meditate on thy last hour. Let the wrong thy neighbour does thee rest with him that did the wrong;

Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.

Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations.

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, thou wilt gain more command over it.

Be not dilatory in doing, nor confused in conversation, nor vague in thought; let not thy soul be wholly concentred in itself nor uncontrollably agitated; leave thyself leisure in thy life.

Auf die Dauer der Zeit nimmt die Seele die Farbe der Gedanken an.

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-

Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

Nothing is more miserable than one who is always out and about, running around everything in circles and looking for signs and symptoms to divine his neighbor's minds. He doesn't realize that it is sufficient to concentrate solely on the divinity within himself and to give it true service.

How easy it is to drive away or obliterate from one's mind every impression which is troublesome or alien, and then to be immediately in perfect calm. p36

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul

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

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.

Borra los desvaríos de tus fantasías, repitiéndote sin cesar: pende de mi en este momento el que no haya en mi alma el menor vicio, deseo ni absolutamente ninguna agitación. Antes bien, veo todas las cosas como son y uso de cada una según su merito, No olvides esa facultad que te otorgo la naturaleza.

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Contempla il corso degli astri52 immaginando di ruotare con loro e pensa come gli elementi si trasformano continuamente gli uni negli altri. Il pensiero di queste cose, infatti, purifica dalle brutture della vita terrena.

Precz z ksi??kami! Ju? nie dawaj siÄ™ im pociÄ…gn??! Nie wolno! (...) ?aknienie zaÅ› ksi??ek precz od siebie rzu?, byÅ› nie umieraÅ' wÅ›ród narzekaÅ", lecz spokojnie.

Uvježbaj se da misliš samo one misli koje odgovaraju na neo?ekivano pitanje: ''Što ti se sada mota po mislima?'' kako bi, trenuta?no i iskreno mogao re?i o ?emu je rije?, o ovome ili onome, i tako svojim odgovorom dati izravne dokaze o tome da su sve tvoje misli neskrivene i dobrohotne, misli društvena bi?a koje ne mari za hirove užitaka ili ve?a zadovoljstva, za suparništvo, zlo?u, sumnju ili sve ono što bi, priznanjem, izvuklo rumen na obraze.

Faithfulness leads us to pay attention to our relationship to God—through such attention, we become even more deeply centered in God. Trust is the fruit of that deeper centering. It grows as we center more and more in God.

The Bible's function as sacrament is familiar to many Christians in its private devotional use. This common Christian practice involves spending time with a passage from the Bible and lingering over it. The passage is not read rapidly or for information, but space is left around it in the hope that a phrase or sentence will become the means for the Spirit to speak to us as individuals in the particularity of our lives, in the dailiness of our lives.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.