Quotes About Meditation

In meditation we turn off the channel of the world and switch on the channel of God.

Meditation helps us attain inner peace. When our soul contacts the Light beyond, we are filled with a total tranquility and fulfillment.

The journey begins by looking inside to find that guiding light of the Divine spark within us. The practice that leads us to that spark is meditation on the inner light and sound

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

More strictly defined, meditation is thinking about God. Prayer is actually speaking to God, either in words or in silent contemplation.

There is a particular spiritual practice that Francis highly recommends that is possible for all of us: even on those "impossible" days when we are perhaps unable to undertake our normal spiritual practices, we can stay rooted in prayer by constantly addressing brief prayers to the Lord. These can be acts of love, of adoration, of faith, of hope, of petition, or simply of saying the name of Jesus—throughout the course of the day.

Teresa of Avila makes the point that it isn't whether the prayers are memorized or not or said out loud or not that determines their value, but whether we pay attention to what we're saying and to whom we're speaking.

A form of wordless prayer in which mind and heart focus on God's greatness and goodness in affective, loving adoration; to look on Jesus and the mysteries of his life with faith and love

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

To think is to act.

We become what we think about all day long.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.