Quotes About Meditation

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

May heaven be in my heart by faith, and may my heart be in heaven by spiritual meditation.

Loving Jesus is not a technique. Do not think about how you can communicate a passion for Jesus to others. Be passionate about him. Meditate on Jesus until he captures your heart afresh.

Diligently practice prayer and lectio divina. When you pray, you speak with God; when you read, God speaks to you." – St. Cyprian

Terence Trent D'Arby was dead. He watched his suffering as he died a noble death. After intense pain I meditated for a new spirit, a new will, a new identity.

I stay in my little bubble - that is what I try and do. There is always noise out there and distractions, but you just have to block all that noise out.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

Showers last only 10 minutes, but you can't do anything else in there but think. The shower is probably the main place I come up with ideas. That's where I came up with the concept for OneVoice, my nonprofit organization.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

I spend about a year between novels.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

Over time, Benedictine monasteries appeared around the world, always with the same anomaly: brothers living in obedience, meditation, and faith just beneath the rush of the world.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.