Quotes About Meditation

In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!

The knight of the Way who thinks only of sitting quietly at home is not worthy to be called a knight.

You hear not with the ears, but with the mind; not with the mind, but with your soul.

Meditation also appears to slow age-related degeneration in our brains. Neurologist Eileen Luders at UCLA looked at the link between age and the volume of the brain's white matter, which typically shrinks with age. She reported that this decrease was less prominent in meditators as compared to non-meditators. On average, the brains of long-term practitioners appeared to be seven and a half years younger at the age of fifty than the brains of non-meditators.

Walls Without reflection, without mercy, without shame, they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about. And now I sit here and consider and despair. My brain is worn with meditating on my fate: I had outside so many things to terminate. Oh! why when they were building did I not beware! But never a sound of building, never an echo came. Out of the world, insensibly, they shut me out.

For that is what conservatism is: a meditation on—and theoretical rendition of—the felt experience of having power, seeing it threatened, and trying to win it back.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

Every day of my life had ended like this: that deep steady voice, that sure and eager confiding of us all to the care of God. The Bible lay at home on its shelf, but much of it was stored in his heart.

Thus, a "psalm" may be defined secondly as sacred literature for meditation.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —psalm 139:23–24

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

The life we have is a reflection of what we think.

So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

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Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.

The avid walker Henry David Thoreau said in 1851, "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

Solitude, Celia realizes now, exists for us not to remember but to forget.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

One of the problems with modern life is that we are constantly subjected to lower tones, which create dissonance in our bodies and cause stress and disease. The high vibrations of nature can counteract these disturbing vibrations, stimulating a field around our head that resonates at eight cycles per second, which matches the electromagnetic frequency of the earth itself. This hertzian state is the same as the state achieved during deep relaxation or meditation.

You can support your spiritual-field repair with prayer, meditation, or contemplation. Prayer sends messages to the Divine; meditation quiets the self so it can receive a response. Contemplation is like having tea with God; we can sit and stare into the Divine's eyes forever, basking in this eternal presence, and simply enjoy our own nature.

A counterclockwise spiral carries others' energy out of you, thus clearing both your field and your body. Imagine any negative energy spiraling out of your hips, through your field, and then to the higher heavens.

As I meditate, I affirm the presence of a guide, angel, or master who is there to love and assist me.

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.