Quotes About Meditation

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Secret to time is beyond our reason.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.

As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires are cut out one by one, the peace becomes stronger.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming

She watched the

To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do," said Victor Hugo.

et, de plus, cela vous brouille les idées

I am interested in silences

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

I have an intense need to be alone.