Quotes About Meditation

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La vacuité d'un phénomène ou d'une chose, ce n'est pas son inexistence ni son absence, mais sa nature instable, mobile, subjective, complexe…

La non-action, c'est la respiration de l'action. C'est comme le silence après le bruit. C'est s'efforcer, dans bien des moments de son quotidien, de ne pas passer tout de suite à autre chose, à une autre action. Décider de prendre le temps, non pas de réfléchir mais de ressentir, de se laisser doucement envahir par le sillage de ce que l'on vient de faire, et la présence de l'instant.

Good prose is solitary work.

Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

ja jos koko ajan ajattelen kuolemaa se ei yllätä minua koskaan

Ich legte mich auf den Boden und hörte die Welt ihre Runden drehn im Gleichschritt der Verwesung.

Sempre invejei os tibetanos pela simplicidade da sua fé pois toda a minha vida tenho procurado respostas. Embora tenha aprendido a forma de meditar enquanto vivi na Ásia, a resposta final para o enigma da vida nunca me foi revelada. Mas aprendi pelo menos a contemplar os eventos da vida com tranquilidade e a não permitir que as circunstâncias me façam derivar de um lado para o outro num mar de dúvidas.

prayer is the most powerful means of healing of all sickness, both physical and spiritual.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I was looking down at a little sprig of mahonia growing out of the turf, its oxblood leaves like buffed pigskin.

I can't help but think of a line written by the poet Marianne Moore: The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

I like to jot down thoughts and ideas as I tread life's garden, for then sometimes when I am weary I can turn a leaf and find what my mood was on a certain day and that changes a train of thought and brings back sunshine.

Siéntate en silencio y cierra los ojos. 2 La luz en tu interior es suficiente. 3 Sólo ella puede concederte el don de la visión. 4 Ciérrate al mundo exterior, y dale alas a tus pensamientos para que lleguen hasta la paz que yace dentro de ti. 5 Ellos conocen el camino.

Let me this day arise in quietness With only thoughts of sinlessness, through which To look upon the world. Let me today Behold the world as You would have it be, Because I am as You created me.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The slumber of the "I" is at the root of most suffering.

You listen to the silence drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.

In a way that starry night sky is a mirror in which we see our own faces.

There was absolute silence as though the arid stillness of planetary space were dropping slowly from the stars.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.