Quotes About Meditation

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Man becomes what he thinks about

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Man is ill because he is never still.

The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.