Quotes About Meditation

Without an inner life, our outer prayer will soon become superficial, ego-centered, and even counterproductive on the spiritual path.

If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

To keep the mind space open, we need some form of contemplative or meditation practice. This has been the most neglected in recent centuries, substituting the mere reciting and "saying" of prayers, which is not the same as a contemplative mind, and often merely confirms us in our superior or fear-based system.

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.

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Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

15:9). Big Truth is intended to deeply change the seer himself or herself, or it is not Big Truth—or truth at all. Some form of contemplative practice is the key to this larger seeing and this larger knowing.

depiction of God in The Trinity seriously, we have to say, "In the beginning was the Relationship." This icon yields more fruits the more you gaze on it. Every part of it was obviously meditated on with great care: the gaze between the Three; the deep respect between them as they all share from a common bowl. And note the hand of the Spirit pointing toward the open and fourth place at the table! Is the Holy Spirit inviting, offering, and clearing space? If so, for what?

Whenever God is conceived in the soul, it is always an allowing, never an accomplishment.

To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

As when things are cold we bring them to the fire to heat and melt, so bring we our cold hearts to the fire of the love of Christ; consider we of our sins against Christ, and of Christ's love towards us; dwell upon this meditation. Think what great love Christ hath showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt, and be as pliable as wax before the sun. Secondly

The sole purpose of all the other work was just to buy time to be still for a moment and write.

Reading was a brave spiritual journey for Elena Hood, and little piles of books were for her like the stacks of rubble—the Tibetan prayer walls—that marked the progress of pilgrims.

Your head is full of kelp.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.