Quotes About Meditation

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Cuando meditamos eso es exactamente lo que hacemos. Dejamos a Dios ser Dios. Nos dejamos estar en su presencia. Ese es su extraordinario poder. Cronol

Prayer is a ubiquitous practice in nearly all religions, but it is seldom understood. Prayer is not magic, meditation, or positive thinking. It remains a puzzle to science and a paradoxical discipline to psychology.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

She yearned to be left alone with her interior life rather than to explain it.

nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.

I tell them that the only peace you find up on a mountain is the peace you bring with you.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

A new line is a new mind.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Everyone is silent.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.

Effective prayer begins with recognizing that you are entering into the very presence of God for the purpose of building relationship with Him.

Prayer is a spiritual tool that shuts your mouth and opens your heart.

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Sentarse tranquilamente bajo la luz de una lámpara con un libro abierto entre las manos, y conversar íntimamente con los hombres de otras generaciones, es un placer que traspasa los límites de lo imaginable

We went to our separate corners to muse, and mope, and stare thoughtfully out the viewports.