We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. Thatβs a fact but one we fight.
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themβ¦digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be βmuch not many.
Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.
While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
Education is discovering your full potential and flourishing that potential for the benefit of the humanity.
Meditation is the energy of the mind,
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
Meditation helps me to calm down.
I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.