Quotes About Meditation

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and weary by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communing with God and with yourself.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room.

Nor less I deem that there are PowersWhich of themselves our minds impress;That we can feed this mind of oursIn a wise passiveness.

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

The harvest of a quiet eye.

That inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.

If you take short breaths, you will tend to have short bursts of attention and to speak in short sentences. Deep, full breaths will enable you to speak in longer, more complex sentences and to form deeper thoughts. Underwater swimming is the best remedy for over-short breath.

Each night before falling asleep, Hill would close his eyes and imagine himself to be in the company of nine "invisible counselors" modeled after his nine greatest heroes: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Luther Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

We should give heed to the words of the Bible until something as phosphorous rises within us

My confidence is in what issues from becoming deeply rooted in Christ through contacting the Lord and spending time in the Word with much prayer.

However, if we are not faithful to take time to absorb the Lord, our condition will gradually deteriorate.