Quotes About Meditation

As Christians our task is to mirror the divine artist as faithfully as possible. Aquinas, like his fellow thinkers, equates imagination with fantasy. He affirms the mediating function of the imagination between mind and body and perceives it as `a treasure-store of forms received through the senses

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

divertirli quanto più si potesse dal conversare col proprio animo, o almeno col desiderio di quella loro incognita e vana felicità.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

There is something easy about being alone and deciding what to do and how to do it.

No response no reaction

If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue.

To commune with your heart and soul, be willing to go out of your mind.

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.

with our thoughts—any thought—we lose touch with the peace and contentment of the Now.

Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

Reading is soul work!

The Directing and Penetrating Vessels originate from the Lower Dan Tian [literally 'Bao'].

Toda la música tiende al silencio.

Siederemo accanto un'altra volta, a spinger sassi col piede, e fantasie col pensiero.

I allowed silence its eloquence.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Find a quiet place to sit alone and in silence; bow your head and shut your eyes. Breathe softly, look with your mind into your heart; recollect your mind—that is, all its thoughts—and bring them down from your mind into your heart. As you breathe, repeat: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," either quietly with your lips, or only in your mind. Make an effort to banish all thoughts; be calm and patient, and repeat this exercise frequently

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

This solitude that you can acquire and should cultivate, this opportunity for contemplation of which you should take advantage, will be useful to you only insofar as you can substitute for those questions posed by the student for the teacher, questions posed by yourself for yourself. - Advice to a Graduation

the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack felt closest to God. Not that he was deeply religious. More spiritual.