Isaac Newton on meditation
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.”
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome People who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.
Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Meditation Should Not Be Torture. It Must Be Fun! Start Small. Five To Ten Minutes A Day Is A Great Start!
Sandeep MaheshwariSandeep Maheshwari Be here now.
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