Quotes About Meditation

Numai însp?imânt?torul putea s? m? liniÅŸteasc? ÅŸi doar pentru a-l întâlni m? trezisem înaintea r?s?ritului.

Å¢i-a f?cut cineva r?u? DospeÅŸte ura-n tine, r?suceÅŸte-Å£i amarul tainic, frige-Å£i vinele clocotitoare. În nopÅ£i, cînd te cuprinde liniÅŸtea vast?, nu c?dea-n uitarea destructiv? a meditaÅ£iei - arde-Å£i cu durere ÅŸi furie t?r?g?narea c?rnii, înfige-Å£i veninul n?praznic în m?runtaiele duÅŸmanului. Cum ai prelungi altfel vieÅ£uirea searb?d??

Simt in aceasta clipa ca am enorm de multe lucruri de spus,dar ca nu voi spune nimic,ca voi pastra totul pentru mine,in mine,fiindca nu-i vorba,totodata,decat de o senzatie de plenitudine si de atotcunoastere,fara realitatea plinului si a cunoasterii

Când petreci zile întregi f?r? s? schimbi vreo vorb? cu vreo f?ptur?, când ai uitat semenii È™i pân? È™i condiÈ›ia de om, eul se dezv?luie cu o for?? tot aÈ™a de mare ca È™i lumea. ConversaÈ›ia ne d? m?sura micimii noastre; singur?tatea ne-o intensific?, dar în aÈ™a fel încât micimea noastr? nu e mai mic? decât a lumii.

A asculta vîntul ne dispenseaz? de poezie, este poezie.

Omul a pierdut simtul marilor taceri, al marilor linisti ce imbata fiinta cu arome de eternitate.

Când ajungi la limita monologului, la marginile singur?t??ii, îl inventezi - în lipsa altui interlocutor - pe Dumnezeu, pretext suprem pentru dialog.

Am devenit propriul meu elev.Nu po?i nega la infinit.La ce bun s? ponegre?ti universul?Nu m? pot converti la nimic ?i totu?i nu-mi consider via?a un e?ec.

N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi

Ce faceti de dimineata pana seara? Ma indur.

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy in meditation.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being inconspicuous, occasional, is massive, automatic, at the antipodes of its essentially delicate nature. Which in any case is how it is used in Germany, a nation which, having meditated upon it the most, is least capable of wielding it.

The dissolving power of conversation. One realizes why both meditation and action require silence.

The most effective way to avoid dejection, motivated or gratuitous, is to take a dictionary, preferably of a language you scarcely know, and to look up word after word in it, making sure they are the kind you will never use.

If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!

Meditate but one hour upon the self's nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man," said a priest of the Japanese Kusha sect

I draw the curtains, and I wait. Actually, I am not waiting for anything, I am merely making myself absent. Scoured, if only for a few minutes, of the impurities which dim and clog the mind, I accede to a state of consciousness from which the self is evacuated, And I am as soothed as if I were resting outside the universe.

Se, no momento de nosso nascimento, fôssemos tão conscientes como o somos ao sair da adolescência, é mais do que provável que aos cinco anos o suicídio fosse um fenômeno habitual ou mesmo uma questão de honorabilidade. Mas despertamos tarde demais: temos contra nós os anos fecundados unicamente pela presença dos instintos, que devem ficar estupefatos com as conclusões a que conduzem nossas meditações e decepções.

What is known as "wisdom" is ultimately only a perpetual "thinking it over," i.e., non-action as first impulse.

In my way I must be a fighter, since I have not succumbed to my ruminations.

my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end.