Quotes About Meditation

Concentration

One of America's most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision. When asked why he did this, he replied, "With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLYING CONCENTRATION

First. Go into some quiet spot (preferably in bed at night) where you will not be disturbed or interrupted, close your eyes, and repeat aloud, (so you may hear your own words) the written statement of the amount of money you intend to accumulate, the time limit for its accumulation, and a description of the service or merchandise you intend to give in return for the money.

the answer you may be seeking, to the questions which have caused you to ponder over the strangeness of life, maybe found in your own mind

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

Each of us is what we are because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which we permit to occupy our mind. Thoughts

Therefore I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

If you need to listen to music while walking, don't walk; and please don't listen to music.

In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all.

Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do-except, of course, when we think about it.

Most of the examples used in this book were created with my Monte Carlo generator, which I introduce in this chapter. Yet it is far more a way of thinking than a computational method. Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.

Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy

anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

wrote in front of a window overlooking trees:

values unscheduled meditation.

Now being lazy, considering laziness as an asset, and eager to free up the maximum amount of time in my day to meditate and read

focused on your image in the mirror a few moments longer, and say to yourself, "Whatever my defects or imperfections, I accept myself unreservedly and completely." Stay focused, breathe deeply, and say this over and over again for a minute or two without rushing the process. Allow yourself to experience fully the meaning of your words.

They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.

On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself. Men sometimes are so, said her husband.

It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.