Quotes About Meditation

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

An angry man is unfit to pray.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

The key to every man is his thought.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Let us see God before man every day.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.