Quotes About Meditation

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

The first step in realization is to always think of God. Then after some years you will realize that you are one with God.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

Think of God oftener than you breathe.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.