Quotes About Meditation

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.