Quotes About Meditation

One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.

Bello es lo que se contempla

Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world." —THE BUDDHA

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." —THE BUDDHA

inhale one count, hold four counts, exhale two counts. If you inhaled for four seconds, you would hold for sixteen and exhale for eight.

Don't do something—just stand there!

Permítame participarle la manera más eficaz de respirar para limpiar su sistema. Hay que mantener el ritmo siguiente: inspirar durante la cuenta de uno, retener durante la cuenta de cuatro, espirar durante la cuenta de dos. Es decir, si se toma aire durante cuatro segundos, se ha de contener el aliento durante dieciséis y exhalar el aire durante ocho.

Somos lo que pensamos. Todo lo que somos surge con nuestros pensamientos. Con nuestros pensamientos, hacemos nuestro mundo. BUDA

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

in these fits of sad regret from which the latter years of few reflecting men can be free, religion would suffice to comfort him. Yes, religion could console him for the loss of any worldly good.

When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.

You need only to identify the relationships, places, memories, activities, book passages, and so on, that have that kind of power for you, and then remember to search them out when you feel war rising within you. When you've accessed such a place—an internal vantage point where peace remains—you can begin to ponder your challenges anew.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Happiness, then, extends as far as contemplation, and the more contemplation there is in one's life, the happier one is, not incidentally, but in virtue of the contemplation, since this is honourable in itself. Happiness, therefore, will be some form of contemplation.

If we ought to philosophize we ought to philosophize, and if we ought not to philosophize we ought to philosophize ; in either case, therefore, we ought to philosophize. For if philosophy exists we ought certainly to philosophize, because philosophy exists ; and if it does not exist, even so we ought to examine why it does not exist, and in examining this we shall be philosophizing, because examination is what makes philosophy.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

What are you into, anyway?" "Solitude.

Tennyson. You know: 'Eating the lotus day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of' … something, something.... You get the point.

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And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.