Quotes About Meditation

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Going to the window,

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

People retired from the world burn their candles here, even as they tirelessly pray for the world.

place less walked on than any other spot in

There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

A quiet mind is all you need.

When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute.

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.

There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love.

The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out. The "I am" is the door. Stay at it until it opens … It is only when you cannot come and go freely that the house becomes a jail. I move in and out of consciousness easily and naturally and therefore to me, the world is a home, not a prison.