Emile Durkheim Quotes

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.