Quotes About Meditation

All was silent as before — All silent save the dripping rain.

Three silences there are: the first of speech,The second of desire, the third of thought.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

Whatv is thisnlife, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

without noise of drums or

O ?mierci nie warto my?le?, bo ona bez naszej pomocy o nas my?li.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.

And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.

Great common truths are disclosed to man only when he is alone: they are the revelation made by solitude in the thick of collective action.

He meditated on the the use to which he should devote that power of youth which is granted to man only once in a lifetime: that force which gives man a power of making himself, or even as it seemed to him - of making the universe into anything he wishes.

in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.

Our feet have reached the holy places, but our hearts may not have done so.

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when we are alone, when we are one-on-one with our thoughts. A thought is a great force. This force finds its way out of a person through words, making one's deeds a blessing or a curse, depending on whether it was a good or bad thought. It

there is no subject so insignificant that it will not expand to infinity, if attention is concentrated on it.

Look at the sky, and at the earth, and think that all things pass. All of the mountains and rivers you see, and all the forms of life, and all creations of nature, all pass. Then you will understand the truth; you will see what remains, what does not pass. —BUDDHIST WISDOM

He had drawn up a carved, velvet chair and was resting his left hand on its back, holding a candle, and using his right hand to cross himself, rolling his eyes upwards every time he put his fingers to his forehead. His face conveyed a gentle piety and resignation to the will of God. 'If you cannot understand feelings like these,' his face seemed to say, 'that's too bad for you.

La verdadera religion no necesita de templos, ni de iconos, ni de salmos, ni de reuniones multidinarias. Al contrario, la verdadera religion entra en el corazón únicamente en el silencio y la soledad

What I take from my nights, I add to my days.

Para no perderse entre el tumulto de un desierto estéril, el alma fuerte se encierra en sí misma

La soledad es para el alma la magnífica ocasión de conocerse, de vigilarse, de formarse a sí misma