Quotes About Meditation

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.