Quotes About Meditation

Silence," he would say, "brings man closer to God and makes him, on earth, like unto the angels.

in order to dispel any impulse of vengeance once I had endured some affront, I would imagine myself quite still in my grave. And I calmed down at once.

I knew nothingness by heart, and I accepted my knowledge.

I breathe in my fashion.

When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

The salutary or awkward consequences of what he thinks matter little to the man who questions himself at hours when others are the prey of sleep.

Every inspired state proceeds from a cultivated, willed inanition.

Jaki? pisarz nie dlatego na nas oddzia?a?, ?e?my go du?o czytali, lecz dlatego ?e rozmy?lali?my o nim ponad rozs?dn? miar?.

During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues

Hacia una sabiduría vegetal: abjuraría de todos mis terrores por la sonrisa de un árbol...

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Enjoy that special place.

There is nothing in the universe but this. I smile. I do not talk to people. I just breathe and stare and exist.

When the words won't come, I take my work for a walk. Literally, I put pages in my pocket and take a hike in an unfamiliar place...." — @emilyebernard

The soul "itself by itself," could tell all it wanted if it would be true to its sublimer isolation.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Whoever looks on this, Loses himself in eternity; And entering the sacrid mountains of Sung, He will dream among the resplendent clouds.

There is but one way to be one with the power of God and that is consciously to contact God. This cannot be done in the without, for God manifests from within. `The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silent before Him.' Only as we turn from the without to the silence of

One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop.

That's because you think about everything in words ... You can go around and around the same question all you like, and never find an answer. I know that's how you cope, how you get through time, so I've never thought it was immature, or unhelpful. But there's another way of doing it: to sit with an empty space, and just look at it, without thinking anything, just enduring. Some people can do that.