Quotes About Meditation

God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Real prayer is union with God.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Every thought of God is prayer.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.