Quotes About Meditation

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Lao Tzu said, "In Tao, you should reduce something every day.

Life is like the footprint left by a solitary crane in the snow, visible for one moment, and then gone.

She's been absentmindedly saying the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.

You have to know that your real home is within.

The importance of having our ears dug open comes to us from the lips of Jesus: "He who has an ear, let him hear . . ." (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). We need to read God's Word, but we must also pray that He will blast through our granite-block heads so we truly hear His Word.

spiritual discipline frees us from the gravity of this present age and allows us to soar with the saints and angels.

You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.

According to him, for the development of inner strength and character, spiritual development was necessary.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of itself.

Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.

We should note that mortification prepares for mental prayer, and the latter, in its turn, facilitates mortification. Therefore, prayer and mortification influence one another. Mortification and patience prepare for prayer through the purification and detachment they produce in us. They enable the person to take flight toward God, and this flight is prayer itself.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

The cure for loneliness is solitude. —Marianne Moore, from the essay "If I Were Sixteen Today

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.