Quotes About Meditation

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him,six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer.

Saints and mystics spend their lives trying to escape the prison of the flesh;

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

You can know only what you have thought about.

There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.

La solitude offre à l'homme intellectuellement haut placé un double avantage : le premier, d'être avec soi-même, et le second de n'être pas avec les autres.

Ein geistreicher Mensch hat, in gänzlicher Einsamkeit, an seinen eigenen Gedanken und Phantasien vortreffliche Unterhaltung, während von einem Stumpfen die fortwährende Abwechslung von Gesellschaften, Schauspielen, Ausfahrten und Lustbarkeiten, die marternde Langeweile nicht abzuwenden vermag.

A man can be himself, only so long as he is alone

A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered.

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

Il mondo è una mia rappresentazione: - questa è una verità che vale in rapporto a ciascun essere vivente e conoscente, sebbene l'uomo soltanto sia capace d'accoglierla nella riflessa, astratta coscienza: e s'egli veramente fa questo, con ciò è penetrata in lui la meditazione filosofica.

Only through the pure contemplation . . . which becomes absorbed entirely in the object, are the Ideas comprehended; and the nature of genius consists precisely in the pre-eminent ability for such contemplation. . . . (T)his demands a complete forgetting of our own person.

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Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!

It will be remembered from the third book that aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for that moment above all willing, above all desires and cares; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.

Hay que leer tan sólo cuando se seca la fuente de los propios pensamientos; lo cual sucede con frecuencia aun a las mejores cabezas.

The fact still remains that "to fast" means primarily "not to eat."1

It is significant that the Lord dealt with fasting as a spiritual exercise distinct from praying.

It needs to be stressed that fasting, whether regular or occasional, is a matter between the individual and God.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

She considered my request for a moment.

There was silence for a moment.