Quotes About Meditation

Would it surprise you to learn that the rabbis thought that study, and not prayer, was the highest form of worship? They pointed out that when we pray, we speak to God, but that when we study the Scriptures, God speaks to us.

Sono giunta fin qui, oziosa, è lo stesso per me dove annoiarmi! Sopra il colle il mulino riposa. Qui puoi stare in silenzio per anni.

Als je Bach speelt, zei meneer De Leon, dan ruim je op van binnen, het wordt schoon in je hoofd. Elke dag moet je Bach spelen, je leven lang.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Is knowledge the pearl of price? That, too, may be purchased -- by steady application, and long solitary hours of study and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise.

Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain.

Remote and oblivious and lost in contemplation.

Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day.

Meditation needs an awake mind not an unconscious one.

"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on Nothing but Meditation?

LIII. What is the holiness of conversation? It is to master death.

Geryon closed his eyes and listened to engines vibrating deep in the moon-splashed canals of his brain.

Proust Sonras? denen çöle bir kez ad?m at?nca, bu türden listeler yapmak bulabileceÄŸiniz en büyük eÄŸlenceler aras?nda.

Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.

Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting

I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word. PSALM 119:15 – 16

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. JOB 33:31

Ici, je me cache quand je veux. Je puis me cacher des jours et des jours, sans qu'on sache si j'existe ou non, et, sans que je le sache bien moi-même. Je m'enferme là-haut. Je lis, je dors, je rêve. Je ne bouge plus.