Quotes About Meditation

You will know that the Lord will come and enter your soul if the doors, which are your senses, are closed…But you will answer that it would be wrong to say "no" to God and he alone is expected. But God comes in some other way of which you know nothing.

Sit down alone and in silence. Lower your head, shut your eyes, breathe out gently, and imagine yourself looking into your own heart. As you breathe out, say "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me." Say it, moving your lips gently, or simply say it in your mind. Try to put all other thoughts aside. Be calm, be patient and repeat the process very frequently.

emblem. The meditator would place his head between his knees and whisper hymns and repeat the name of a magic emblem. Repetition of the magic emblem was used as the object to dwell upon and would chase away distractions and cause the "demons and hostile angels to flight." A state of ecstasy was reached, which Gershom G. Scholem, a scholar of Jewish mysticism, has described as "an attitude of deep self-oblivion.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

Okay Libya...got all this stuff twirling around in my head

I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man upon his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region…. Meditation and water are wedded forever.

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.

Philosophy is nothing else than striving through constant contemplation and saintly piety to attain knowledge of God.

Alone, she read herself into the "middle of a world", like "shutting the doors of a Cathedral". She took long solitary walks, in all weathers, talking to herself and reciting, "very lively in my head..

It took me a while to realize the hum was only inside my head Is a waveless noise still a sound?

I do a lot of counting. Cigarette butts, trees, fence slats, clouds, or the number of paving stones between one phone pole and the next, the windows along the way to the bus stop in the morning, the pedestrians I see from the bus between one stop and the next, red ties on an afternoon in the city. How many steps from the office to the factory gate. I count to keep the world in order, I said. Paul

T?cerea nu-i o pauz? în vorbire, ci o treab? în sine.

Sometimes I'm at stool all night." 507

Thomas Moro solía decir que uno debería construir un retiro, una ermita, dentro de su casa.

Gardiner, he thinks. It may not be proper to call

One can learn from that, he thinks.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Besides shooting out a big blank from your buttock, you can feel as if your root chakra leaked sweet hot mucus.