Quotes About Meditation

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

It is his vegetable ambition never to stir.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Dear God, help me pay attention! Dear God, help me keep my mouth shut! Dear God, let me put myself out of the way! Dear God, let me be wholly present to this person, your child!

Look ahead into the past, and back into the future, until the silence.

Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.

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