Quotes About Meditation

Seek God's face always

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.

Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

turn your face towards the lances of rain, the soul towards ancient wisdom. And

El cerebro del hombre está atiborrado de trapos.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.

David declared, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart [to be awed thereby, to put it into practice] , that I might not sin against thee" (Ps. 119:11).

Then there will be times when we shall forget the matter of our personal gain, when we shall be caught up in wonder, love and praise, as we fast unto God.

semejante a una droga tranquila.

depending upon one's profession, thinking is not always the most comfortable of pastimes.

A sword is like communion. It's appropriate to approach it with prepared body and soul.

Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?

Delusion with respect to the body, idle talk with respect to speech, forgetfulness with respect to the mind, mental agitation in terms of not resting evenly in meditative equipoise, ideation of duality in terms of samsara and nirvana being viewed differently, indifferent equanimity in terms of not being alert and analyzing: the Sage is without any of these.

All compounded things are impermanent!" "Everything bound up with pollution is suffering!" "All phenomena are devoid of self!" and "Nirvana is peace!

The merit of generosity arises from giving, that of morality arises from moral conduct. The two aspects of patience and meditative stability stem from meditation, and diligence accompanies all.

At the time when emptiness or Mahamudra is realized, the essence of one's own mind is realized by itself in such a way that there is no duality between an object to be realized and a realizing subject.

Even as the skillful activity of unbearable compassion unfolds without hindrance, may at the same time the meaning of its empty essence nakedly shine forth. Inseparable from this supreme unerring path of union may we meditate at all times, day and night.

Once one realizes that beings do not truly exist and yet feels compassion for them, this is the most excellent type of compassion.

when selflessness is seen in objects, the seeds of cyclic existence are destroyed.aryadeva

In solitude, the mind and body Are not troubled by distraction. Therefore leave this worldly life And totally abandon mental wandering.