Quotes About Meditation

You can sit and meditate while your baby cries himself to sleep. Or you can go to him and share his tears, and find your Self.

we must expose ourselves to the Bible, immerse ourselves in its words and its teachings, and then pray for the Spirit to render it effective in our lives.

If you allow the things of this world to dominate your thinking, you will be spiritually unfruitful.

Theological reflection is the most important activity a person can perform.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

When all sounds cease, God's voice is heard under the stars.

Prayed to the Genius of the place.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

she needed the quiet solitude found when the rest of the world was still asleep.

It is amazing what God will tell you, if you only take the time to listen.

By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnâni, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom — freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil.

According to the Yogis there are two nerve-currents in the spinal column, called Pingalâ and Idâ, and that there is a hollow canal called Sushumnâ running through the entire spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow canal is what the Yogis call the "Lotus of the Kundalini." They

Secondly, we have also to know that, of all the centres, we have particularly to remember three,—the Mulâdhâra or the basic, the Sahasrâra or the thousand-petalled lotus in the brain, and the Manipura or the lotus in the navel.

forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.

that a man must be active in order to pass through activity to perfect calmness. Inactivity

Who sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring The sure effect; good, good; bad, bad; and none Escape the law. But whoso wears a form Must wear the chain." Too true; but far beyond Both name and form is Âtman, ever free. Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say — "Om Tat Sat, Om!

To turn the mind inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, so that it will analyse itself, as it were, is indeed very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything like a scientific approach towards the subject. Now

through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?

for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;

Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.

We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.