Quotes About Meditation

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

As Spinoza, or someone very much like him, once said . . .

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child, learn from incense How best to pray.

Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

Pray till you pray.

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.