Quotes About Meditation

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

How little we understand that we need enough time with God for His light to shine into the depths of our hearts and fill our lives.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It

He tells you that when you go to private prayer, your first thought must be: Thy Father who is in secret; the Father waits for me there.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

we offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray.

You may have ten hours of hard work daily, during which your brain has to be occupied with temporal things. God orders it so. But abiding in Jesus is the work of the heart not of the brain. The heart clings to and rests in Jesus, a work in which the Holy Spirit links us to Jesus.

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.

To be alone in secret with the Father: this be your highest joy. To be assured that the Father will openly reward the secret prayer, so that it cannot remain unblessed:

places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole

The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

We waste so much time within ourselves.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I think anything like that- which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone- people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?

Sergeyich diluted his bitter thoughts with honey and felt better.

If you want to be wise, then, the most important thing you can learn to do is worship.

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Every night there is something to ruminate on. The vagrant mind knows no boundaries. It leaps

Her pace is furious as she walks along the beach, the surf competing with the noise in her head.

Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks of calm. The rhythm you find is from down inside, rocking cradle, heartbeat, ocean. Waves on a rockless shore.

bug on the wall.

Is true freedom even possible? It certainly is in a momentary sense, as any mature practitioner of meditation knows, and those moments can increase in both number and duration with practice. Therefore, I see no reason why a person couldn't perfectly banish the illusion of the self. However, just the ability to meditate—to rest as consciousness for a few moments prior to the arising of the next thought—can offer a profound relief from mental suffering.