Activity Quote by Emile Durkheim

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

— Emile Durkheim

“Take for instance a man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or…

— Erich Fromm

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

— Henepola Gunaratana

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list…

— Christopher Dines

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

— Annie Besant

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and…

— Henri Nouwen

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he…

— Blaise Pascal

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

— Thomas Merton

The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and…

— Ajahn Chah

“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn