Quotes About Meditation

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Never underestimate the power of a long, protracted silence." Out

The ability to ignore the instant chatter of the mind and to recognize there is something beyond it. There is wisdom beyond it, from the fountain of silence. This is the only way to choose yourself.

Don't be afraid to go silent. Mirror and then have the confidence to go silent.

Souvenez vous, she tells me. One must make a little prayer from time to time.

John looked with a child's impenetrable gravity into the preacher's face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind and would answer when he had thought it

It will all be the same, only I will be stiller

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' Ã¢â'¬Â " Ã¢â'¬ËœAnd if the Truth is hidden?' Ã¢â'¬Â Toranaga said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœIt's already clear,' Ã¢â'¬Â Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

What was his death poem?" Omi said: "What are clouds But an excuse for the sky? What is life But an escape from death?' " Toranaga smiled. "Interesting.

It is sometimes wise to be abstract.

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind by itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts however requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline-training- is about.

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.

There's a world we can't see. It exists separately and concurrently with the real world. You enter this world by the offering of prayer and incantation. You live in this world wholly within your mind. You dispel the real world through mental discipline. You rebuff the real world through your enforced mental will. Your interior world will give you what you want and what you need to survive.

The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It

We meditate that we might learn to see through Christ's eyes the divine mystery of all that surrounds us.

Compassion forms the essential bond between seeking God in meditation and all forms of social justice. For the more we are transformed in compassion, the more we are impelled to act with compassion toward others.

ways of prayer often call forth a kind of knowing that passes beyond clear ideas and the ordinary way of thinking.

desire to practice meditation means you are being blessed in a most extraordinary way. You are being led into the waters of meditative awareness, in which hermits, monks and nuns living in monasteries, and countless devout women and men living in the world have found a deep and abiding

To practice meditation as an act of religious faith is to open ourselves to the endlessly reassuring realization that our very being and the very being of everyone and everything around us is the generosity of God. For God is creating us in the present moment, loving us into being, such that our very presence in the present moment is the manifested presence of God. We meditate that we might awaken to this unitive mystery, not just in meditation, but in every moment of our lives.

Prayer begins to take on its full dimensions only when we begin to intuit that the subtle nothingness of prayer is everything.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.