Quotes About Meditation

Obras de Pema Chödrön:

Si lo que tienes es estrés, recurre a Pema.

Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast.

Emptiness is the fasting of the mind." –Zhuang Zhou 4th century B.C.

Open, Lord, my mouth to bless your holy name; cleanse my heart from all empty, evil, or distracting thoughts; enlighten my mind, enkindle my heart, that I may recite this Office worthily, attentively, and devoutly, and may merit to be heard in the sight of your divine majesty. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." Latin

Aside from the fact that regular meditation can lead to profound insights and life-changing understanding, it also has its more mundane uses. It helps you to relax; it promotes good sleep, better concentration, and improved overall health.

Meditation techniques that come to us from the East—in particular from China, Japan, and India—lead the practitioner toward physical and mental stillness.

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

Like our Eastern counterpart's, the goal of the Western style of meditation is that of bypassing the critical thinking mind and its processes. But instead of doing so with stillness, it accomplishes the same task with activity and imagery.

A guided imagery meditation is something like a controlled, planned dream through which someone else leads you.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

Quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perchè c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala.

Ein Sadhu hat mir einmal etwas Interessantes gesagt. Ich weiss nicht, ob es stimmt, aber mir kam es sinnvoll vor. Er meinte, achtundneunzig von hundert Gedanken hat man schon mal gehabt. Auch die Gedanken wiederholen sich. Deshalb kann man sie genauso gut anhalten, also ganz zum Schweigen bringen. In der Stille findet man dann vielleicht einen oder zwei Gedanken, die wirklich neu sind.

Damit beginnst Du, mit Schweigen, mit Stille. Nach Mutter Theresa führt die Stille zum Gebet, das Gebet zum Glauben, der Glaube zur Liebe und die Liebe zur Tat. Doch am Anfang dieses Prozesses steht die Stille. Fragte sich jemand: "Wie ist es möglich, sich zu verändern?", gab sie immer eine ganz einfache Antwort: Beginn mit Schweigen.

quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perché c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala. Questi la chiamano «Dio», quelli la chiamano qualcos'altro, ma c'è.

Prostota jest ogromn? pomoc? przy porz?dkowaniu my?li.

Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? "Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein", hat er mir einmal geantwortet. "Um die Melodie zu hören.

[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies.

You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.

When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.