Quotes About Meditation

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Nothing is more useful than silence.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.