Quotes About Meditation

Porque lo interesante de la meditación –y esto podría ser una segunda definición– es crear en uno mismo una especie de testigo que espía el remolino de pensamientos sin dejarse arrastrar por ellos.

comme nous autres bobos pour qui le cours de yoga du dimanche matin a remplacé la messe marmonnons un mantra, à la suite de notre maître, avant de commencer la pratique. Dans ce mantra, cependant, on souhaite que les pluies tombent à point nommé et que tous les hommes vivent en paix, ce qui relève sans doute du vœu pieux mais n'offense pas la raison, et c'est une différence notable avec le christianisme. (p. 17)

You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.

What you think upon grows. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things (Philippians 4:8).

The highest of all forms of prayer is true contemplation, in which the thought and the thinker become one. This is the unity of the mystic, bit it is rarely experienced in the earlier stages. Pray in whatever way you find easiest; for the easiest way is the best

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

Se acuerda de que alguien dejó dicho que el camino verdaderamente misterioso siempre va hacia el interior.

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Where do you suppose he got that high brow?

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

Meditate then, on all these things, and on those things which are related to them, both day and night, and both alone and with like-minded companions. For if you will do this, you will never be disturbed while asleep or awake by imagined fears, but you will live like a god among men. For a man who lives among immortal blessings is in no respect like a mortal being.

Practice these and the related percepts day and night and you will live as a god among men.

Mercy I desire and not sacrifice", he tells them, quoting the prophet Hosea (6:6), thus giving them their subject for meditation. The

The solitary individual can structure time in two ways: activity and fantasy.

Prayer is the experience of recentering ourselves in that inner light, then becoming a transparency for its radiance.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Untamed, the mind is your greatest enemy: crippled by self-doubt, beset by irrational fears, and divided by its own conflicting desires. In meditation you will find the inner peace that alone can give you clarity, simplicity, and happiness.

not all thoughts have to become words!

Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.