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meditations
«Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.»
Author: Diana Robinson
| About:
God,
Prayer
| Keywords:
listen, listen in, meditation, meditations, prayer, talk, talk to
«Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
goes, greater, meditation, meditations, prayer, prays, source, The Source
«One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| Keywords:
Creator, meditation, meditations, one hour, seventies, seventy
«Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
attachment, follows, good practice, immediate, meditation, meditations, results, surrender
«They say that these are not the best of timesBut they're the only times I've ever knownAnd I believe there is a time for meditationIn cathedrals of our own.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
cathedrals, meditation, meditations, of our own, The Cathedral
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
clear, discourse, discourses, discoursing, meditation, meditations, profound, reading, The Discourses
«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.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Choice,
Meditation
| Keywords:
brings, bring forward, choose, come forward, forward, forwarding, forwards, hold, hold back, ignorance, lack, leads, leaves, meditation, meditations, path, The Forward, The Path
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affords, crowded, inquiry, laborious, meditations, public libraries, public library, The C, volumes