Quotes About Meditation

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

I feel like working out is something where I can be alone with my own thoughts and release all that tension.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

Being still may sound a little crazy to some, but I really encourage people to simply listen to your own breath and unclog all those thoughts running through your mind. It's important to take a step back.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

I enjoy meditation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

connected to the divine,

think about all the people who'd sat in these pews before me, and the many prayers that had been sent heavenward.

attempting to martial his thoughts.

I turned on my back and floated": The Drowning Pool

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

prayer is in significant part about resolving conflict and rivalry. If people prayed seriously they would be reconciled.

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.