Quotes About Meditation

La soledad es el imperio de la conciencia.

A Jesuit and a Franciscan are walking through a garden, silently engaged in prayer, when the Jesuit pulls out and lights up a big cigar. The Franciscan whispers, "My spiritual director says one should not smoke while one prays." The Jesuit replies, "Mine said it's all right if I pray while I smoke.")

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

Everybody has lonely places

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689

Breathe Deep, Seek Peace.

What most observers failed to perceive in him was something quite bafflingly simple—a love of quietness, contemplation, and being alone.

_ What do the [monks] do? [...] _ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom. _ But that isn't *doing* anything. _ Then, madam, they do nothing. _ I thought as much.

suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn. But this, too, like the laziness, was an imperfect interpretation. What most observers failed to perceive in him was something quite bafflingly simple—a love of quietness, contemplation, and being alone.

I will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

It's important to have quiet moments in your life, so you can remember what it feels like to be yourself.

16th a day of no action

That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. It will calm my heart. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

Your mind will give back exactly what you put into it.

Quotations every day of the year.

he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes, for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like a mantle and that in revery at least he had been acquainted with nobility.

He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

shuttered for the repose of Sunday

skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his