Quotes About Meditation

calling out to the world to forget everything except the sublime.

She daydreamed and made up stories in her head, and the cloister and solitude of the pieta suited her.

She shut her eyes, her head full of music yearning to be played.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act of praying, our feelings change. Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. It repoints the person praying, taking him somewhere else.

These words of prayer are among the most basic words Dr. Gatewood knows. When he has forgotten everything else, those words are the words he will have. Those words have formed his heart, and—regardless of what he feels or remembers on any particular morning—they continue to form his heart still.

From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing , a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps.

For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

But at that moment, Danny decided not to think about it — or anything else

possibly even food, to drift onto the pebbly beach

Sound is the secret. The great Qabbalists taught that a prayer sung is one thousand times more efficacious than a prayer simply recited. This is because a human being instantaneously goes into a state of trance when he or she begins singing, or someone starts to sing at them.

The dervishes (or Sufis) have a saying, 'The dervish is the mirror of the dervish.' In other words, the universe is the mirror of the magickian's unconscious. Remember that face and you will never be dismayed for all is your realm to rule. For all will be plain to you. Whatever you experience will always and only be yourself. Whatever you change within your unconscious will always and only be the universe.

One goal of the daily time of contemplation is to become aware of the essential in life, to become aware of that, which does not change upon death. If you can find that which is eternal in yourselves, suddenly your lives will have attained much significance and meaning.

Living knowledge goes beyond words and lifeless facts and takes you into a wordless direct knowing of the Ultimate Reality.

You acknowledge that you are both the one praying and the one being prayed to.

immediately create a force field of electric blue light. The first step in this technique is to visualize the correct color of blue.

Third, visualize yourself surrounded by this light. This light must be in the shape of a giant egg of light, extending at least one meter in all directions from your body. This is your Electric Blue Shield of Protection.

Fourth, visualize a brilliant star blazing above your head, inside the egg.

He passed the dead in all their ranks, in all their spectral attitudes. Some lay supine, mouths open in attitudes of near ecstasy, one upon the next, embracing. Some had bowed their heads as if in deep meditation or prayer. Others had been ground to pulp against the concrete and conveyed no expression at all.

Of each particular thing, ask: "What is it in itself, in its own construction?" —Marcus Aurelius

Whether a deity is actually listening or not, there is value in formally announcing your needs, desires, worries, sins, and goals in a focused, prayerful attitude. Only when you are aware can you take action.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

L'éternité n'est pas dans le temps, elle est dans la profondeur. Dans son vertige.

that she never hung anything because when she wasn't working, she wanted the white space. Palate cleanser, Pauline would explain.