Quotes About Meditation

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha

Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries - stand that man on his legs, let his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region... Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.

oh armadores de Nantucket! ¡Cuidado con alistar en vuestras vigilantes pesquerías a ningún muchacho de frente descarnada y mirada profunda, dado a tan inoportuna meditatividad, y que se ofrece para embarcarse llevando en la cabeza el «Fedón» en vez del Bowditch! Cuidado con semejante persona

if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Pensar é audácia

La meditación y el agua están emparejadas para siempre.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

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Sí, como todos saben, la meditación y el agua están emparejadas para siempre.

The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76

In Judaism praying for benefits is a very small part of the liturgy. Most of it is commitment of one's fortunes to God, and meditation on sacred writings which put in clear words the few great points of our religion. Its daily aim is a renewal of religious energy through an act which declares one's Jewish identity and one's hope in the Lord.