Quotes About Meditation

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

There is something joyous about not talking.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

As a goalkeeper, you have so much time back there where you're alone, and you're talking to yourself in your head.

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

I do things like the float tank, which helps me get into that mindframe of calmness. I take that really seriously.

Don't start arguments. They are futile and take us away from our purpose. As Yeats noted, your important arguments are with yourself. If you don't agree with me, don't listen. Think about something else.

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

mindfulness meditation will transform your reactivity to the signals by turning down the volume on your amygdala and orbital frontal cortex. But if you have trouble discriminating internal bodily cues, mindfulness meditation can amplify them by increasing the gain on the insula.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself. —TERESA OF ÁVILA

Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.

The twentieth-century Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, when asked why he meditated, replied, "Because I am a Christian.

Remember that the key to the Discipline of study is not reading many books, but experiencing what we do read.

Darkness is a definite experience of prayer. It is to be expected, even embraced.

As Richard Foster explains, "Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking, without a heart listening to God, is not silence."1