Quotes About Meditation

I want quiet thunder.

We are paper thin. We exist by chance between the percentages, temporarily. And this is the best and the worst part, the time factor. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can sit on top of a mountain and meditate for decades and nothing will change. You can change yourself to be acceptable, but maybe this is wrong. Perhaps we think too much. Feel more, think less.

?utao sam, jer kad mrziš, ne možeš da moliš...

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.

The best way to think is not at all

I look into myself and find perfect emptiness

Somos finos como papel.Existimos por acaso entre as percentagens, temporariamente. E esta é a melhor e a pior parte, o fator temporal. E não há nada que se possa fazer sobre isso. Você pode sentar no topo de uma montanha e meditar por décadas e nada vai mudar. Você pode mudar a si mesmo para ser aceitável, mas talvez isso também esteja errado. Talvez pensemos demais. Sinta mais, pense menos.

The idea, I decided, is not to think. But how do you stop thinking? Why was I chosen to polish this rail? Why couldn't I be inside writing editorials about municipal corruption? Well, it could be worse. I could be in China working a rice paddy.

Ele [Henry} é tão quietinho... - As águas paradas são as que têm maior profundidade

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

Your faith frames your world daily.

if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week;

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Daily, quiet reflection on the word of God as it applies to me ... becomes for one a point of crystallisation for everything which gives interior and exterior order to my life." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's word in holy scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the word of God. " —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

En tercer lugar, la oración tranquiliza mi corazón. No puedo preocuparme y orar al mismo tiempo. Hago la una cosa o la otra. La oración me tranquiliza. Reemplaza a la ansiedad por un espíritu calmado. ¡No se pueden dar golpes con las rodillas cuando estamos arrodillados!

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

I thought about that long drive in the

D?gen Zenji said, "To look for the Buddha dharma outside of yourself is like putting a devil on top of yourself." Master Rinzai said, "Place no head above your own." That is, to look outside of ourselves for true peace and satisfaction is hopeless.

That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.