Quotes About Meditation

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.

How can you ever be prepared to die? "Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks. Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

But scenery without solace is meaningless.

Scenery without solace is meaningless

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

It leaves space for your thoughts to echo

I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.

Sandor waited. Sometimes the most important work was done in the silences.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.

Para empezar a privar a la muerte de su mayor ventaja sobre nosotros, adoptemos una actitud del todo opuesta a la común; privemos a la muerte de su extrañeza, frecuentémosla, acostumbrémonos a ella; no tengamos nada más presente que la muerte. No sabemos dónde nos espera la muerte: así pues esperémosla en todas partes. Practicar la muerte es practicar la libertad.

Onun için kalabal?ktan kaçmak yetmez, bir yerden baÅŸka bir yere gitmekle iÅŸ bitmez. Ä°çimizdeki kalabal?ktan kurtulmam?z, kendimizi kendimizden koparmam?z gerek, böyle anlarda.

Nemo in sese tentat descendere Kimse kendi içine inmeye çal??maz Persius Bense kendi içimde yuvarlan?p gidiyorum.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilise the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

Do Eastern religions meditate because it helps them to perceive reality as they consider it really is; that is, in monistic mode? Or do they see reality in monistic mode because they meditate? Similarly, do western religions emphasize such acts as prayer and worship because they help the believer to see the reality of the theistic mode? Or do they tend to see reality in a theistic way because of the activities of prayer and ritual worship?

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

But we could not live in this world if we were not able, from time to time, to get away from it.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

If the only answer is silence, sit down, regain your calm, and combat terror with reason. Once you have calmed down, start doing the right things.

Gandhi once said, 'When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not any ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me… Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meaning from it every day.