Quotes About Meditation

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.