Quotes About Meditation

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.

When you add the noise of the external world to all the roles you take in it, it is easy to lose sight of who you really are. To find your Element, you need to regain that perspective. One way is to create time and space to be alone with yourself, to experience who you are when no one else wants anything from you and the noise has stopped. One method is to meditate.

Being in your Element is about connecting with and dwelling in the positive feelings that express and fulfill your own spiritual energies. One way of discovering the roots of these feelings, and of finding your Element, is through the practices of mindfulness. These practices draw on the principles and techniques of meditation that I suggested in chapter one.

If the soul wants to know God, it cannot do so in time. For so long as the soul is conscious of time or space or any other [object], it cannot know God.

The very act of compiling information about your Deity can be its own prayer. It

Faith is developed by meditating in God's Word and by acting on that Word. Meditating in the Word causes the capacity for faith to increase. By meditating in it and practicing it, the Word will produce the results of faith, love, healing, prosperity, wisdom and well-being in every area— spirit, soul and body.

Step number six to receiving answered prayer is in your every waking moment, think on the greatness of God and His goodness, and count your blessings. This will increase your faith.

Step number one to receiving answered prayer is decide what you want from God and find the scripture or scriptures that definitely promise you these things.

By a constant, careful, diligent, reverent, prayerful study of God's Word.

I had to come down to the brink of the grave before I'd do what I'm urging you to do—come to God's Word in a constant, careful, diligent, reverent, prayerful manner and find out what God's Word has to say on this subject.

But it will work if you'll get it down on the inside of you! Into your heart! The way you do that is not by just reading it and forgetting it. But by meditating upon it. By thinking upon it. By feeding upon it. Until it becomes a part of your inward man.

And as you feed upon the Word by meditating, you will be ready to use these scriptures against demons who will try to make you doubt God and who will try to rob you of what you want. It is the devil who tries to make you doubt God.

Total absorption in poetry is one of the finest things in existence—It should not make you feel guilty. Everyone is absorbed in something.The sailor is absorbed in the sea. Poetry is the mediation of life.

This is the evening of the two-fisted prayer

without thought, for you are not ready for thought

Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.

There is a qigong saying, "When the intent (yi) arrives, the qi [life force] arrives." This means that the more your mind is focused on what you are doing, the more qi you can develop and control.

Carrying water and chopping wood are just as much spiritual practices as reading scriptures.

The point of Zen is not to defy reason but to recognize the limitations of rationality.

Zen is a transcultural and trans-religious phenomenon. No matter where you are, you can always find it. Zen is in you.

True spirituality begins with relaxation.

Amen and amen, selah. Omeyn, seloh.

The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.

What is needed is only a pausing of the heart so the spirit can take wing and be lifted toward the infinite.