Quotes About Meditation

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself;

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,

It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it's like I'm in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

44. In meter singing is joined, and therefore there must be more care of the speech and tone, then in prose. 45. But the melody of singing is ordained for a certain spiritual delight, whereby the mind is detained in the meditation of the thing that is sung.

An appendix of the Sermon is Prayer, both before and after.

In the Meditations, he offers advice on what to do at such junctures: Continue to practice Stoicism, "even when success looks hopeless.

Epictetus echoes this advice: We should keep in mind that "all things everywhere are perishable.

Some people, I realize, will find it depressing or even morbid to contemplate impermanence. I am nevertheless convinced that the only way we can be truly alive is if we make it our business periodically to entertain such thoughts.

Negative visualization does not have these drawbacks. We don't have to wait to engage in negative visualization the way we have to wait to be struck by a catastrophe. Being struck by a catastrophe can easily kill us; engaging in negative visualization can't. And because negative visualization can be done repeatedly, its beneficial effects, unlike those of a catastrophe, can last indefinitely.

Stoic techniques at once but to start with one technique and, having become proficient in it, go on to another. And a good technique to start with, I think, is negative visualization.

Marcus Aurelius approvingly quotes this advice.

While praying, always duck and cover. The authentic spiritual pilgrimage may require that you walk all the way up a holy mountain, only to haul your ass right back down and still not have a clue where you were, are, or will be.

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

I lie along the body of this life,all night stilling my breath to listen to breath,feeling its weight heavy against my weight.

body bowed forward as though she were

William Buhlman

transformation of your mind

escape our own mind.

Higher self now!" and "Spiritual essence now!

William Buhlman

operate on automatic and never reflect on our inner dialogue.