Quotes About Meditation

All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts,And building castles in Spain and in France.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Silence is an ornament which is visible from the inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne détruit le silence.)

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick—but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Let the gardener sweep and sweep the turf as he will, and press the leaves into full barrows, and wheel them off, still they lie ankle-deep.

[S]he... paced the staircase-gallery outside, looked out of the window on the night, listened to the wind blowing and the rain falling, sat down and watched the faces in the fire, got up and watched the moon flying like a storm-driven ship through the sea of clouds.

I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.

I am saying nothing.

I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.

growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.

It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.' 'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry. 'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am.

The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and, the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.

Try to think not; and 'twill seem better.' 'I've

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Certainly this is what many people feel during empty moments or deliberate experiments at meditation: a churning unease that says "I should be doing something". This cultural compulsion is so strong that even spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer are easily converted into just another thing to do, moments mortgaged to the campaign of improving life.

Maintaining focus on the breath cannot happen through forcing, but only through allowing. In fact, it is extremely easy; our habit of making things hard is what gets in the way.

Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.

Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, but your predominant mental attitude is what counts.    19.

Whenever problems arise, get alone and listen quietly for God.

the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Josué 1.8 es un maravilloso versículo de las Escrituras acerca de los benditos beneficios del pensar concentradamente. «Nunca se apartará de tu boca este libro de la ley, sino que de día y de noche meditarás en él, para que guardes y hagas conforme a todo lo que en él está escrito; porque entonces harás prosperar tu camino, y todo te saldrá bien».

La meditación es la forma en que Dios corona nuestra vida del éxito suyo y da prosperidad de alma, espíritu y cuerpo. Es también un catalizador para un vivir obediente.

He encourages you to share your heart with God, but also directs you to pay attention to what the Father is teaching you.