Quotes About Meditation

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

I've always reflected on the game.

Change comes from reflection.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Reflection makes men cowards.

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

New Year's Eve is not about having a big party for me. It's a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.

Everyone knows that you need to have a period of reflection at the end of the season.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you're thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, there's no room. There's no room for the character you're trying to build.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

I had a regiment of psalms that I said each day.

I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.

If you run regularly for 10 to 15 kms, you get into that space where it is like meditation. There is no confusion in your head, thoughts enter and leave and you let go of all your pent-up emotions.

I find it's nice when I can be a listener and absorb things coming at me. It's important, especially for me, when so much of my job is about putting things out into the world. So those quiet moments are rejuvenating.

I like to have quiet evenings and relax.