Quotes About Meditation

I libri sono riserve di grano da ammassare per l'inverno dello spirito.

Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves

Why would we 'swing' when we had praying?

mind. He was driving

of the short journey passed in silence.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

The greatest opportunity for humanity's survival in the twenty-first century lies not in widening our external horizons, but in deepening our internal ones.

altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.

there will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts

The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. What do you say when you pray? she answered, I listen. The reporters paused a moment, then asked, Then what does God say? and she replied, He listens. It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.

Who said nights were for sleep?

My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.

I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days

Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

For me writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone. I feel I am with you now, whatever that can mean, considering that you're only a little fellow now and when you're a man you might find these letters of no interest.

I think through things. It calms me. Otherwise I don't react as well as I could have. As I would have wanted to.

My heart was very heavy. There was Boughton sitting in his Morris chair staring at nothing. Glory told me the only words he had said all day were Jesus never had to be old.

For me writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You felt that you are with someone

People don't understand that the hardest thing is actually doing something that is close to nothing. It demands all of you...there is no object to hide behind. It's just you.

Fill my head with any thoughts but those that fill it now.' She could not yet cry, for her tears were far too deep to reach.