Quotes About Meditation

So the first consequence of Christ's withdrawing himself from us is that inward graces grow weak and we tend to rely more and more on outside helps. Above all, we lose the desire for holy meditation and we spend less and less time with Christ. Just as frost withers the plants in the garden, so the grace in our hearts also withers when the 'Sun of Righteousness' withdraws and hides himself.

Para un hombre libre no hay ocupación más digna y encantadora que contemplar las hermosas obras de la naturaleza y honrar la sabiduría y bondad infinitas de Dios.

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

Membaca, berpikir, mencintai dan berdoa, hal-hal inilah yang membuat orang berbahagia.

COOKING WAS a form of meditation

looking back at him

emotional state, or need for respite?

Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things.

In one corner, a group of men were kneeling on a carpeted area of the bay and praying.

overthinking things is a hobby of mine. I'm the first to admit I'm weird

our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.

Until recent centuries, almost all human beings walked or ran a considerable distance every day, and this has perhaps been the primary time for meditation. To awaken our sense of who we are, it's important, whenever possible, to get out and walk every day—and also to turn that simple act of ambulation into the sublime experience of walking meditation.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

For hours he would lie absorbed in the economy of the ground.

You're bound to get ideas if you go thinking' about stuff.

Lee watched him for a while before he went back to his kitchen. He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

kind of warm silence.

It's always hard to start to concentrate. The mind darts like a chicken, trying to escape thinking even though thinking is the most rewarding function of man.

Kar??mda nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir arazi duruyor, yan?mda da nadasa b?rak?lm?? koskoca bir adam. Ä°sraf gibi geliyor bana. Ä°srafa gücüm yetmediÄŸi için de kötü bir his verir. Hayat?n? nadasa b?rakmak iyi bir his mi?

The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.