Quotes About Meditation

I have often said the soul cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.

Nada nos puede consolar cuando lo pensamos detenidamente.

to think well; this is the principle of morality.

VÅ¡etky problémy ?udstva pramenia z neschopnosti ?loveka sedieÃ…Â¥ v miestnosti ticho a sám.

all of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.

all humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone." Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

Les misères de tous les hommes tirent de ne pas être en mesure de s'asseoir dans une pièce calme seul.

All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

Todas las miserias de la humanidad se deben a una sola cosa: a que somos incapaces de estar sentados solos y en silencio en una habitación

Todos los problemas de la humanidad parten de la incapacidad humana de sentarse calmado en una habitación.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.

mantelpiece

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

More vividly than ever before he realized that art has two constant, two unending concerns: it always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St. John.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Considering

I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.

As to what they might be resting upon, Stephen was determined not to consider).