Quotes About Meditation

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.

The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.

We also know life passes quickly and death is certain, yet in our busy lives we find it difficult to practice as much as we wish we could. Perhaps we meditate for an hour or two each day, but that leaves the other twenty-two hours in which to be distracted and tossed about on the waves of samsara. But there is always time for sleep; the third of our lives we spend sleeping can be used for practice.

By helping you discover a deep source of knowledge and wisdom, meditation practice can bring you to the sense of connection, completion, and fulfillment that you yearn for. Ultimately, it can help you arrive at the more profound sense of peace and happiness that comes only from connecting with your deeper essence.

Conversely, when we continually bring awareness to the immediate moment of experience, this capacity will soon be found in dream.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening

Let nothing disturb the silence of this time with you, my Lord.

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.

It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion.

Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors.

for mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.

The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he