Quotes About Meditation

Kalbini canland?rmak isteyen kimse, ona Rabbiyle sessiz karanl?kta vakit geçirme imkan? vermelidir, iki rekat dahi olsa.

Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

The Fathers of the Church say that prayer, properly understood, is nothing other than becoming a longing for God.

Maximus has been called unscriptural, but Scripture is the background and the presupposition for all that he does, to a wholly different degree than in the one-sided scholastic theology or spiritual works of the sixth century. The Confessor's first major work is his set of answers to the questions of his friend Thalassius on passages in the Holy Scriptures.42 Maximus offers these answers from the fullness both of the exegetical and spiritual tradition and of his own personal meditation.

I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God…in these temples of God's own building.

while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Real reading is a lonely activity.

Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)

Heaven isn't a place, it's a state of consciousness.

They say if you stare at a telecaster long enough, all your troubles will disappear Who the H*** says that? I do

The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

My mind was on a silent hillside, in a land far away, and gods who should be left to sleep. *

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Tai chi is often described as "meditation in motion," but it might well be called "medication in motion." There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice... has value in treating or preventing many health problems.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

You can only apprehend the infinite by entering into a state in which you are finite self no longer.

Generally we study too much and think too little.

Pimpin dan kendalikanlah jiwa dengan baik, karena amat liarnya, dan beri ingatlah, karena dia lekas lupa.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.