Quotes About Meditation

In spite of sheer concentration and every effort of will power, Byrd could not avoid the terrible evenness and loneliness of silence.

Perhaps what those who meditate today are seeking is a state that our ancestors would have considered their birthright, a nightly occurrence.

We can't make the external world become peaceful; we can only become peace.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Por eso recomienda tanto la calma y la paciencia, en primer lugar consigo mismo. «Guardaos de las precipitaciones y de las inquietudes, porque no hay nada que nos estorbe más para caminar en la perfección» (Carta a Santa Chantal, 57, colec. Blaise).

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and breathe you have to create a truce - a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.

Dado que los efectos de las sustancias psicodélicas son tanto terapéuticos como espirituales, muchos de los que los han experimentado se han interesado en la meditación o en seguir un camino espiritual.

In Cadaques, time is suspended in such a way that days spent here are not counted in the ageing process.

There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.

No cries, no convulsions, nothing more than a face fixed in thought. The gods no longer existed, Christ didn't exist yet, and there was, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, a unique moment in which man was alone. —GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, IN AN 1861

Sometimes your best company is you

Build a far mosque where you can read your soul-book and listen to the dreams that grew in the night.

I'm past thinking,' said Sarah quietly.

O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

?????????? ????????: I searched myself.

Yolun gitti?i yeri unutan? hat?rla.

One way to know whether hibernation is occurring is to measure the body's rectal temperature. During hibernation this temperature decreases. Meditators, it appears, do not hibernate. Their rectal temperatures do not decrease during the practice of meditation.

man gained direct knowledge of God by losing all awareness of himself. Referring to his title, the author depicts a passive attitude as the way "to cover," or forget, all distractions: "Try to cover these thoughts with a thick cloud of forgetting as though they never existed neither for you nor for any other man. And if they continue to arise, continue to put them down.

He goes on to discuss the element of "dwelling upon" and advises that his readers can develop "special ways, tricks, private techniques, and spiritual devices" in order to achieve contemplation. One means is the use of a single syllable such as "God" or "love":

kneeling, swaying, or sitting in a cross-legged position are believed to have evolved to prevent falling asleep. You should be comfortable and relaxed.

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.