meditation quotes

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:99.

Manhasthreeways ofacting wisely.First, onmeditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.

-'The MasterK'ung' Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse
c.479  BC  The Analects.

Hethat inhisstudieswhollyapplieshimselftolabourand exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

-'The MasterK'ung' Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

When you notice a cat in profound meditation The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'The Naming of Cats'.

Wahrscheinlich sindsie der interessantesteReiz und Stoff unseres Nachdenkens und unsererT a« tigkeit. Probably theyare the most interesting stimulus and object of our meditation and our activity.

-Thomas Mann
  Of illnesses. Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), vol.1.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'StanzasWritten in Dejection, near Naples'.

Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat; et ejus sapienta non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

- Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
  Ethics, bk.4, prop.67.