Quotes About Meditation

There's almost always a calmer and ultimately more efficient way to do something if you just stop and think about it.

relaxation exercise. Close your eyes, take in a deep breath and hold it for several seconds. While you hold it, say to yourself, 'I exist for the pleasure of my Masters. This is what and where I want to be.' Then let out the breath in a long, slow exhale, releasing any nervous energy in the process.

expose. The pose looked deceptively simple—just kneeling with hands behind the head and knees spread wide, but it could be challenging to hold for long periods. It was a pleasing pose.

The passion for love has to translate into passion for right relationships as well, which in turn leads to weeping and anguish. Therefore the Spirit does not mediate complacent love but chooses to be present in the midst of brokenness and distress.41

Claude Royet-Journoud

A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I, he thought, to interfere with or dispute even such a simple thing as the falling of a leaf. He

I sometimes think, said Jason, that the soul may be a state of mind.

though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars. There were no revelations to be had there. Just pinpricks of light in a plain heaven. But he saw for the first time how fine that was. That in a world too full of loss and rage they be remote: the minimum of glory. As she led him across the lightless ground, time and again he could not prevent his gaze from straying skyward.

the man who thinks too much is likely to go to exhausted extremes where the world becomes a shadowy paradigm of ideas. To keep sane he must continually come back to reality.

scattered parkgoers. Cora hunkered and

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

The overexamined life... It's not worth living.

The quiet lines matter as much as the noisy ones.

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

Oh, the mind itself is a deep, deep well. Lower me down and let me touch water.

The mind is a garden, said he.

Very quiet and yet quieter living-for-ourselves.

If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

God is the partner of our most intimate soliloquies. That is to say, whenever you are talking to yourself in utmost sincerity and ultimate solitude--he to whom you are addressing yourself may justifiably be called God.

At other times it is more advantageous for him to make use of an opportunity for contemplation and to realize assets in this way.

think for some minutes about the meaning of life. Particularly about the meaning of the coming day and its meaning for me.

Ninguna situación se repite y cada una exige una respuesta distinta; unas veces la situación en que un hombre se encuentra puede exigirle que emprenda algún tipo de acción; otras, puede resultar más ventajoso aprovecharla para meditar y sacar las consecuencias pertinentes. Y, a veces, lo que se exige al hombre puede ser simplemente aceptar su destino y cargar con su cruz.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.