Quotes About Meditation

Forget all you know or think you know; abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, find the currents of eternity. - Fin Raziel

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

The more you continue to read Scripture, the more you begin to think as He thinks and act as He acts. And that's how, over time, you gain the wisdom of the ages.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

At the heart of journaling is an easy-to-remember acrostic: SOAP. S = Scripture O = Observation A = Application P = Prayer

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

Necesité a Dios para aquietar todas las voces, menos la de Él

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

People don't believe it, but solo sailing actually is quite restful.

It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.

Each night, as I closed my eyes, I would find myself back in the same meadow. The more I played, the more glass fell from my head. I knew that it was trauma being evicted from my body. But I thought to be healed of the trauma I should be quoting the Word incessantly... Not playing... "Rest ... rest and play....

Wendy Lawton

Sometimes the universe, it wants us to pause for a moment. To reflect on what's happening in our lives.

It was something they did without thinking. They had formed meditation habits. High "self-controllers" achieved desired outcomes by streamlining, not struggling.

There is a deep silence in the words that you can only hear when you are reading."

Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.

Mark my words: living alone is the ultimate exploration of inner truth. It's one thing to see yourself as a web of changing relationships: to others, to society, to material things and places. It's quite another to see simply yourself, to be your own companion, to talk to yourself and answer back honestly. Your times change because others change them for you. My changes come purely from within.

I live with depression and anxiety.* I take medication, I practice meditation and CBT, and I see a therapist regularly to help me handle it. It doesn't control my life, and it doesn't define my life . . . but when it's really bad, it sure feels like it does. When it's really bad, it feels like it is the only thing in my entire life, the Alpha and Omega of my existence.

Don't let me think.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Close your eyes.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.