Otto Bauer Quotes
Sad Quotes by Otto Bauer

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous,
big, and glorious party be so easily crashed:
this would then be the moment,
when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
- Otto Bauer

A nation is a totality of men united through community
of fate into a community of character.
- Otto Bauer

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal
awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification,
knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
- Voltaire

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion,
and dethrones the national deity.
- William Robertson Smith

These are strange times.
Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,
now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
- Johan Huizinga

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels
of social organization are fundamentally a consequence
of the disappearance of work.
- William J. Wilson

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution,
but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
- William Ralph Inge

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
- Kit Bond

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the
oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding
over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
- Ronald Reagan

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
- Fritz Sauckel

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through,
full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,
finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
- Mikhail Bakunin

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion.
The instincts of nature shrink from it,
for no creature can like its own dissolution.
But though death is not desired, the result of it may be,
for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
- William Jay

You can forgive people who do not follow you through
a philosophical disquisition;
but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes,
or staring when you were in a fit of laughter,
would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

It seems like we are moving towards something,
some kind of point and it is probably going to be an
important point in our development or dissolution.
That is what everybody seems to be thinking.
- Terry Riley

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother,
sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution,
but not appealing to me against the inevitable,
rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience,
and pointing to a hopeful future.
- Thomas Edward Brown

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be,
according to the fitness and tendency of things.
Nature has set upon him the process of decline and
dissolution by which she removes things which have
survived their usefulness.
- William Graham Sumner

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained
in the soul through its physical connection with the body;
and that it required the dissolution of this physical
connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
- Adam Clarke

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran

Move to your heart, Breathe.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply - slowly -
fill your lungs with love and gratitude -
exhale each and every trouble -
again and again - gratitude in, troubles out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness.
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.
- Osho

He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being,
and remain conscious - and you are meditating.
And then meditation is not separate from life.
- Osho

The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Sleep is the best meditation.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If you are doing mindfulness meditation,
you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
- Daniel Goleman

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois

The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We tend to think of meditation in only one way.
But life itself is a meditation.
- Raul Julia

Photography is an immediate reaction,
drawing is a meditation.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

I get into certain yoga positions at times,
when I'm working out and for exercises.
I use a little of it in some of my meditation,
but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
- John Astin

I am calling attention just to the main points of these
tremendously important matters,
which can be understood better by pious meditation
than explained by human language.
- Martin Chemnitz

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time,
we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
- Eknath Easwaran

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action,
the soul of meditation.
and honor the reward of action.
- Francis Quarles

The more intense the nature of a man,
the more readily will he find meditation,
and the more successfully will he practice it.
- James Allen

The flowering of love is meditation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations
I couldn't otherwise solve or understand.
Meditation comes very naturally to me.
- Anne Stevenson

There are different things one can do to establish
and hasten the peace process.
Meditation is one way.
- Mike Love

Prayer is more than meditation.
In meditation the source of strength is one's self.
When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
- Chiang Kai-shek

The focus and the concentration and the attention to
detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation.
I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
- Harrison Ford

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
- Owen Feltham

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is
about connecting to the higher part of yourself,
and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
- Gillian Anderson

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.
- Mike Love

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows
immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
- Swami Sivananda

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject,
a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation,
in my case, for its own sake.
- Peter Wright

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation,
or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
- Christy Turlington

Practice meditation regularly.
Meditation leads to eternal bliss.
Therefore meditate, meditate.
- Swami Sivananda

Meditation here may think down hours to moments.
Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head
and learning wiser grow without his books.
- William Cowper

My workout is my meditation.
- Kyle MacLachlan

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation
affirming my connection to the earth body.
- Carol P. Christ

The affairs of the world will go on forever.
Do not delay the practice of meditation.
- Milarepa

I deepen my experience of God through prayer,
meditation, and forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate
go down to a level of rest,
twice that of deep sleep.
- Mike Love

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation.
The only meditation I would have done before would
be in the writing of songs.
- Sting

No great work has ever been produced except after a
long interval of still and musing meditation.
- Walter Bagehot

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance.
It's about meditation and concentration.
You have to use hand and brain.
- Celine Dion

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which
I attain Being and my own self,
not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
- Karl Jaspers

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the
ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
- Daniel Goleman

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
- Jeremy Taylor

We should so provide for old age that it may have no
urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
- Pearl S. Buck

Soon silence will have passed into legend.
Man has turned his back on silence.
Day after day he invents machines and devices that
increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,
contemplation, meditation.
- Jean Arp

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than
what we normally take to be reality.
- Richard Gere

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding,
is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
- Johannes Tauler

The execution of any thing considerable implies in
the first place previous persevering meditation.
- William Godwin

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great
to get connected to yourself more.
- Ziggy Marley

I believe that painting should come through the avenues
of meditation rather than the canals of action.
- Mark Tobey

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world.
It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed,
turning back into yourself in a good way.
A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels
of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
- Ted Hughes

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life -
and I do that through yoga and meditation.
It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat,
because I think what we eat can inform who we are;
food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
- Mariel Hemingway

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink,
to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend
the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.