Quotes About Meditation

Silence is the ultimate isolator.

Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it.

Who doesn't dream of it? The silence that blots up thought. The silence that frees one from the burden of being oneself.

But mostly it's because my head's too full. So I have to keep thinking until it's empty, and then I can go to sleep.

often thought the same thing, but

Kirjailijan ammatissa parasta on se, ettei tapaa uusia ihmisiä.

Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså medlet funnet.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

It would be false to say that one could ever be alone when one has one's lovely thoughts to comfort one.

Pretend to relax

Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

right. So. Here's

I desire to lie in the dust,

The complexity and efficiency of the physicist's technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic's consciousness—both physical and spiritual—in deep meditation.

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path—cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.

When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.

I have given up reading any book outside the Bible for proof of its inspiration. This blessed Book is gripping my inner consciousness more and more, and is compelling my obeisance to what must

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Step softly, under snow or rain,To find the place where men can pray;The way is all so very plainThat we may lose the way.