Quotes About Meditation

In the parched pathI have seen the good lizard(one drop of crocodile)meditating.

To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.

This is why one becomes a monk: to cultivate in every moment presence to the beauty of the world.

We walk into the olive grove and sit in the dry grass on the bluff. The monastery and the whole world lie before us. Purples, yellows, pinks and blues but all washed, hazy, indefinite, dreamy. The world was dissolving, vanishing. And if you half-closed your eyes, you could see yourself from afar, dissolving in the haze. You could see yourself turning into light.

On Thomas's view, we pray in order to dispose ourselves so as to receive properly what God wills to give us.

morning. Her gaze lowered to the screen.

Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!

En silencio la realidad pesa menos.

Nonetheless innuendo and imperfectly definable actions hover over the actions of the hermit.

The man of visionary mind may sit down before one solitary cabbage, and find food for his thought, if not for his palate, in the reflection, "Truly thou mightest have been my brother.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.

I am familiar with the impatience we feel when forced to suspend the enchantment of solitude.

There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious.

The light of Infinite Intelligence streams through your consciousness, dissolving and dissipating all anger and resentment. You are at peace with yourself and with the whole world. A woman once told

Divine Mind (man's own superconscious mind)

We can learn to control our thoughts in the same way, by gentle determination, not force. We take an affirmation and repeat it continually, while our thoughts are on the rampage. We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

There are, however, other kinds of meditation. One of them is known as active meditation. In this form of meditation, one relaxes the body and enters

W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

Être seul est devenu une maladie honteuse. Pourquoi tout le monde fuit-il la solitude? Parce qu'elle oblige à penser. De nos jours, Descartes n'écrirait plus: "Je pense donc je suis." Il dirait: "Je suis seul donc je pense." Personne ne veut la solitude, car elle laisse trop de temps pour réfléchir. Or plus on pense, plus on est intelligent, donc plus on est triste.

ÃŽn zilele noastre, Descartes n-ar mai scrie: "Cuget, deci exist". Ar spune: "Sunt singur, deci cuget

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.

silence usually taught him more than the company of others.