Quotes About Meditation

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.