Quotes About Meditation

A life taught in the Scriptures, and tuned in to God in prayer, produces an outflowing of grace and power.

We cannot pray sincerely if our aim is not to bring glory to Him.

The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.

It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Religious meditation, when set up as an end, not as an exercise towards an end, can issue only with all the more highly gifted minds in transcendental reverie, but with the great majority in devout torpor and pious monotony.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We all need a few minutes of privacy sometimes

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.

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When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

My home is in my head.

A distinctive of my second half is that I set aside time for introspection almost every weekend. My few hours of uninterrupted reading and thinking are the wellspring from which I draw living water to nurture the activities of the rest of my week.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things (Philippians 4:8).

I've spent the last 11 years meditating, concentrating, contemplating, applicating, educating, investigating, and instigating a higher ideal. I've been a born again Christian, a crystal holding new age visualizationist, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Christian scientist, a universalist, a bullshit artist, a seeker of truth, a charlatan, a holy roller, a shamanistic dancer, a guru, a disciple, and an enigma to my friends.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.