Quotes About Meditation

Meditar en las cosas buenas de la vida significa que su mente está dominada, impregnada, totalmente cautivada y completamente ocupada por buenas ideas, conceptos y perspectivas. ¿Qué significa esto para nosotros de forma práctica? Cuando decidimos pensar en cosas que nos inspiran, nos animan, nos enseñan y nos edifican emocionalmente, descubrimos que queremos seguir la voluntad de Dios, y anhelaremos permanecer fieles a Él.

Cuando preferimos pensar en la majestad y gloria del Señor descansamos en Él con fe y confianza cada vez mayores.

De una renovación de nuestro entendimiento proviene un cambio en nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta. A medida que nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta se renuevan, nuestras relaciones con los demás también se renuevan. A medida que nuestras relaciones se renuevan, nuestro mundo inmediato se renueva. Todo comienza en la mente, con aquello en lo que decidimos pensar y meditar.

However, since Scripture teaches that all believers, young and old, should clearly be able to discern the voice of God, it's important for you to stop talking at times and just listen to Him. Grow still and quiet. Open His Word and learn to identify how He speaks. You will, eventually, recognize His voice and know exactly what to do.

Friend, personal meditation isn't difficult. It begins when you simply get alone with the Lord and sit quietly before Him. So don't wait any longer. Focus on the Father. Listen to His voice, be filled with His peace, and find His direction and purpose for your life.

So I began to meditate on Scripture the way he taught me. That is, I wouldn't just read the Bible—I would ask questions. "Lord God, what are You saying to me? How do You want me to apply this to my life? What is it I'm supposed to learn, Father?" This has helped

Si estábamos orando, abrir la Biblia en los Salmos y comenzar a leer. Si sentimos pesadez en los ojos y en la mente leyendo las Escrituras, cerremos la Biblia por unos minutos y alabemos conscientemente a Dios.

Él hombre sin educación que sabe meditar en el Señor ha aprendido mucho más que aquel con mucha educación que no sabe meditar.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind be quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the fifty thousand thoughts the average person thinks every day. And most of those thoughts are automatic mental responses we've developed from conditioning that fill us with anxiety and fear. They are nothing more than habits, and 99 percent of the thoughts you have in a day are the same ones you had the day before.

Meditation is not only sitting still like a Buddha-figure, nor is it thinking about something, for the Upanishads say that the stars, the trees, the rivers, and the mountains are meditating — unconsciously. Conscious meditation is a knack, and as an exercise it is a way of learning that Enlightenment comes to pass in us as much when we are doing nothing to produce it as when we are in the midst of activity.

Don't just do something — sit there!

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time; and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul, and the language of our spirit...

When Memory rings her bell, let all the thoughts run in.

Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

[M]ore than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way into the secret places of the soul.

When a traveler asked Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she answered, "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."

Sewing mends the soul.