Quotes About Meditation

Mergi linistit pe drumul tau, prin larma si zor/ Si aminteste-ti cata pace poate fi-n tacere.

WELCOME TO ECHO BEACH, WHERE GOD ANSWERS BACK, read the sign on her left.

Throw open the gates, set self aside, bide in silence and the radiance of spirit shall come in and make its home.

Close your eyes, cover your ears with your hands and open your soul.

Before seeing, before feeling, and before thinking: What is the mind?

don't rush though: your eyes need time to taste. your soul needs room to bloom.

The slide changed to a picture of Kattan walking down a narrow cobblestone street, head down

Sonya Voronova leaned back in the kitchen chair and stared blankly at the computer screen.

Say Your Prayers

The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.

Deep within the center of the soul is a chamber of peace where God lives and where, if we will enter it and quiet all the other sounds, we can hear His "gentle whisper" (1 Kings 19:12).

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

A great believer once said, "All things come to him who knows how to trust and to be silent." This fact is rich with meaning, and a true understanding of it would greatly change our ways of working. Instead of continuing our restless striving, we would "sit down" inwardly before the Lord, allowing the divine forces of His Spirit to silently work out the means to accomplish our goals and aspirations.

But the greatest triumph of a person's faith is to "be still, and know that [He is] God" (Ps. 46:10).

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

Simple remarque. Personne, fût-ce chez les meilleurs chrétiens, ne semble chercher Dieu ni même y penser. On se met à table comme des chiens et on se met au lit comme des cochons. Impossible d'obtenir la moindre attention quand on parle de Dieu.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Day's weary toil is o'er; No worldly strife my heartfelt worship mars: Beneath the mystery of the silent stars, I tremble and adore.

The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer, sense and non-sense, meaning and futility, male and female, being and non-being, Light and darkness, void and full. Beyond all duality, or non-duality, beyond and beyond. Disincarnation. I breathe again.

the practice of tantra involves a combination of emptiness-yoga — through which all ordinary conceptions of one-self are dissolved — and deity-yoga — in which one cultivates the enlightened identity of a particular meditational deity.

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

Books think for me.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.