Quotes About Meditation

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself?

You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

The most powerful form of prayer, and the one which can virtually gain all things and which is the worthiest work of all, is that which flows from a free mind. The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things.

Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.

We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.

God works with neither a medium nor an image, and the more you are without images, the more susceptible you will become to his work, and the more you forget and go within yourself, the closer you will be to him.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

My prayer life IS my life.

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Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode.

I sat evaluating myself. I decided to lie down.

And in that dark silence where it seems that everyone is someplace but me, it all comes back.

Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad.

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You were sleeping?" said Princess One. "No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.

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So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.