Quotes About Meditation

Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...

Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.

Evit?m s? ne gândim la moarte pân? când nu mai avem for?a, n-a? spune, de a gândi, ci chiar de a respira.

There is always a wonderful silence here…. One could hear the water sleep….

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

Thus the problem of Einfühlung, like that of my incarnation, opens on the meditation of sensible being; or, if you prefer, it betakes itself there. The fact is that sensible being, which is announced to me in my strictly private life, summons up within that life all other corporeality - It is the being which reaches me in my most secret parts, but which I also reach in its brute or untamed state, in an absolute of presence which holds the secret of the world , others, and what is true.

What one too deliberately seeks, he does not find; and he who on the contrary has in his meditative life known how to tap its spontaneous source never lacks for ideas and values.

I've come here for the silence," he said. "Silence," repeated

Sleep quietly, now that the gates of the day are closed. Leave tomorrow's problems for tomorrow. The earth is peaceful. Only the stars are abroad; and they will not cause you any trouble.

Where silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence. Man does not put silence to the test; silence puts man to the test.

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of

Set aside a period of 30 minutes each day when you can be alone and undisturbed. Relax and make yourself as comfortable as possible. Now close your eyes and exercise your imagination.

Henri Fehr, the famous Swiss scientist, said that practically all his good ideas came to him when he was not actively engaged in work on a problem, and that most of the discoveries of his contemporaries were made when they were away from their workbench, so to speak.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

In which they are alone now and there doesn't seem to be anyone around. Sometime

vedra ni zbog ?ega, misao ni o ?emu...

Usamljenost ra?a misao, misao nezadovoljstvo, nezadovoljstvo pobunu.

This is a matter between herself and God.

Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.

then I just closed my eyes and watched the blossom petals fall and

To be capable of shutting the world out, even death itself, and surrendering to the body, trusting in its powers, its secrets. No feeling but this. No feeling

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.