Quotes About Meditation

frase de Escipión, que de sí mismo dijo que nunca estuvo más activo que cuando no tuvo nada que hacer y nunca menos solo que cuando estaba solo consigo mismo.

Jakob Mendel] leggeva come altri pregano, come i giocatori giocano e gli ubriachi tengono lo sguardo fisso nel vuoto storditi.

Undoubtedly, the mind is restless and hard to control But it can be trained by constant practice and by freedom from desire." - B.K.S. Iyengar. Climbing is really great, we all love climbing. But what's interesting to me is what happens in my head or in my life because of it. Ultimately, I think climbing is a vehicle for exploration - of the world, of the self.

When desire is killed out by a variety of methods of meditation and contemplation, what remains is a psychic corpse from which the libidinal cosmic force of the vital surge has been artificially removed.

The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.

Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of meditation, this simple but essential step involves turning your mind away from its usual preoccupation with external events — or, just as often, with the story it tells you about external events — and toward your inner sensate experience. If you're like most people, you're so caught up with what's happening around you

These four practices—concentration, receptive awareness, cultivation, and contemplation—constitute the major uses of awareness throughout the world's great meditative traditions.

Buddhists like to compare the mind to a monkey—constantly chattering and hopping about from branch to branch, topic to topic.

She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not even here, where she was supposed to be able to escape.

For lack of a better phrase, knitting is knit together into who I am, and coming back to knitting meant coming back to myself, and myself was such a crazy place to be right then that I didn't want to go there.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.