Quotes About Meditation

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.