Quotes About Meditation

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It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

The pondering heart is a thankful heart.

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.