Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
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He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord,
To visit him to-morrow or next day:
He is read more
He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord,
To visit him to-morrow or next day:
He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Divinely bent to meditation,
And in no worldly suits would he be moved
To draw him from his holy exercise.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and read more
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, read more
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I read more
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.
In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and read more
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
