Quotes About Meditation

Yoga, a practice that is at the heart of Hindu philosophy and religion, means to yoke. Its goal is to unite man with Brahman, the Hindu concept of 'God' or (god-consciousness). Brahman represents everything. It is seen as the all, the absolute. Brahman is both all good and all bad and is the power and the force of the universe--the god of India.

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close on my own peace, I wanted to close the peace of my love in my heart like dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks

If you leave a thought, a chance word, a phrase of music, in your mind, growing and cherished for its proper reason, you will have the wisdom or peace or strength that was hidden in that seed.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.

Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?

If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.

Who goes to bed and does not pray,Maketh two nights to every day.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.

Amo esta soledad, lejos de los problemas de la vida en común.

he was a reader and so had still available an important means of relaxation and escape.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.