Quotes About Meditation

no le parece que tiene uno suficientes quebraderos de cabeza con lo que piensa de verdad para preocuparse encima de lo que habría podido pensar si lo hubiera pensado?

Il faut du temps pour faire se rejoindre "la" et "sa" vérité du temps. - Vandoosler

non cresce niente sul magniloquio, sul parviloquio o sul soliloquio. Su che cosa cresce qualcosa? Sul riflettiloquio.

Thinking and talking about God is not communion with God. Only prayer is prayer.

Then heart and soul, body and mind, memory and will, the very breath of life itself, everything that you have and are unites in gratitude and joy, tuned like a violin string to the name of Jesus. This "descent" is a gift of the Holy Spirit, not something you can force. So you may say that you are practicing the Jesus Prayer,

The Jesus Prayer teaches you how to "lean just right," combining joy, trust, penitence, and gratitude, so you can find yourself in his presence.

Go where your best prayers take you.

staring intently at the

It is strange how people always speak quietly in the darkness before dawn.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

His heart was in his garden; but his brainWandered at will among the fiery stars.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

A spiritual life, without a very large allowance of disquietude in it, is no spiritual life at all. It is but a flattering superstition of self-love.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

Peitsin pää ta rinnale, sulesin silma, kuulasin — mida? — ei tea. Võib olla, iseenese, võib olla, tema, võib olla, kogu maailma südametukset.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

In order to deal with the fear of annihilation you have to face annihilation again and again and again. It's not enough just to understand this intellectually. It's not enough just to read about this. You need to watch yourself being annihilated right now. If you can manage to sit quietly as you disappear from existence moment by moment, then you can see it's really nothing to be afraid of. You gotta meditate. Nobody likes to hear that. But it's true.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.