Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
Interpretation
Reflect deeply and find inner peace through solitude.
This quote encourages individuals to take time for introspection and self-reflection, suggesting that true understanding and tranquility come from stillness and connection with one's inner self. Maimonides implies that quiet contemplation can provide clarity and insight, allowing people to become more attuned to their feelings and thoughts.
In practice
In a meditation session focused on personal growth.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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