Quotes About Meditation

En lugar de quejarnos de la soledad, bendigámosla, aprovechemos la posibilidad inesperada que nos da para examinarnos en silencio, para dominarnos lucidamente y totalmente, hasta en nuestros más contradictorios pensamientos

No hay más remedio que alimentar el espíritu, para no dejarse caer en el embrutecimiento, en la suciedad, en la mediocridad

Era preciso, pues, buscar el olvido en el sueño de la vida.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water "you are a fine looking old man" I said to myself in the mirror "and what is more you have the correct attitude You don't care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise" Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

Going nowhere … isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

SIT IN A CHAIR AND KEEP still. Let the dancer's shoulders emerge from your shoulders, the dancer's chest from your chest, the dancer's loins from your loins, the dancer's hips and thighs from yours; and from your silence the throat that makes a sound, and from your bafflement a clear song to which the dancer moves, and let him serve God in beauty.

Nobody goes into a Zen monastery as a tourist.

It's the new best way to start your day - Ram Lev on Facebook Live TOMORROW, Thursday, March 16th, at 7:30am EST. "If I am not the body that was born and dies, and I am not the mind that always changes, then who am I? The One who is aware of the body, aware of the mind, and aware of the questions.

Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by that which decays and vanishes. In other words, do what is to be done, when it is to be done, moment by moment—based on the wise and good counsel of the buddhi—and the grace of the Divine Reality will bring you everything you need.

Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become the (d)anger within your life." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The

Prayer makes the soul tender.

He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.

The sweet hour of prayer as a mid-week breather in the church has been reduced to a sweet twenty minutes of prayer.

Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all.

My head is a bier for my thoughts, my body a coffin.

This secluded spot was the haunt of thousands of honey bees that zimmed all through the warm days at their business. I could sit amongst the bees for hours on end and feel happy, although why they pleased me so I cannot tell.