Quotes About Meditation

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.

If I had time for only two exercises, I would choose yoga and skipping.

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.

When snow falls, nature listens.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Don't evaluate a short ride in physiological terms. Easy pedaling is good thinking time. I get all kinds of ideas for bikes, products, and general life solutions during short rides. The super grand solutions often come after twenty minutes, but you'll get some good ones within five; and if you don't, it's still better than five minutes of sitting down and eating five minutes

Graham committed himself to an hour of prayer and Bible study each day after breakfast. He began with five chapters of Psalms, he claimed, to know how to get along with God, and one chapter of Proverbs to know how to get along with other people. That way he read each book through once a month.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

The concern this raises, as Berding highlights, is that there is a famine of God's Word even in the church; we are starving ourselves to death. Instead of following the admonition to meditate on God's law day and night (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2; 119:97), we take a haphazard approach to internalizing the Word in our lives.

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

The act of focusing our consciousness is an act of creation. Consciousness creates!

It's all about our power to focus consciousness, which is the great secret of some of our most ancient and cherished traditions.

The poet Kabir asks, "What is God?" Then he answers his own question: "God is the breath inside the breath.

Solvitur ambulando, St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

I want to be alone.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

Pensar lleva tiempo.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

The building blocks of meditation are relaxation and concentration. If you cannot relax, you cannot meditate. If you cannot concentrate, you cannot meditate. No exceptions.

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

You see, meditation is not a fabricated state. It is natural. It is accessible to all. And in the same way that a person who learns how to run, can run any time they want to, or, a person who knows how to play an instrument can play music at will, once you learn how to meditate, you can create your moments of peace at will.