Quotes About Meditation

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

Tea (green, black, and white)

means that people, unsettled by their vulnerability, eternally fear to tell the truth, to mediate between chaos and order, and to manifest their destiny.

Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture

Al margen de su imposibilidad, el concepto de mirar activamente la degradación de la materia, que incluye la de nuestro propio cuerpo, es una saludable terapia estoica que ayuda a aceptar el paso despiadado del tiempo.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.

He grew enthusiastic in thinking of the convents. Ah! to be earthed up among them, sheltered from the herd, not to know what books appear, what newspapers are printed, never to know what goes on outside one's cell, among men—to complete the beneficent silence of this cloistered life, nourishing ourselves with good actions, refreshing ourselves with plain song, saturating ourselves with the inexhaustible joys of the liturgies.

Andrés palpó la gasa delicadamente, llevándola hacia la ventana para mirar la luz que hería el recamado. Estuvo largo rato pensativo, examinando ese objeto vivo aún pero a punto de expirar, extendido levísimo en sus brazos, brillante en medio de todo el polvo.

Era de esos hombres que no disponen de tiempo ni ocasión para dejar de ocuparse de sí mismos.

the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.

Sabes lo que es quedarse a la orilla de uno mismo, contemplándose?

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

Methodist, madam,' said he, 'pray what is that?' She replied, 'Why, the Methodists are a people that do nothing but pray: they are praying all day and all night.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.