Quotes About Meditation

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

one was very

Pretty much.

muttered. Then:

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

El secreto se protege a sí mismo. Se lo encuentra únicamente en el espíritu y en la práctica del Trabajo.

Uno no debería rezar si esa oración es vanidad.

El Sufismo es experiencial.

Meditación - Antes de aprender cómo meditar, tienes que desaprender lo que crees que podría ser la meditación.

Cuando llegue mañana, piensa los pensamientos de mañana.

What the self-imagined mystic seeks only in his meditation is visible to the Sufi on every street corner and in every alleyway

Lo que el autoimaginado místico busca sólo en su meditación, es visible para el Sufi en cada esquina y cada callejuela.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.