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 Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
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