Quotes About Meditation

Do you think . . . ? 'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.

I'm not praying, she said. I'm remembering. Sometimes the two things look alike, that's all.

Looking at Yourself Through the Eyes of Your Higher Power

Reframing my life with my wonder child helped me to see that everything in my childhood prepared me for what I'm doing now. The purpose I found in my meditation was that I am here to be myself and to proclaim my human freedom and to help others do the same.

is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 

Many times I am forced in my prayers, first to beg of God that he would take mine heart, and set it on himself in Christ, and when it is there, that he would keep it there.

presently I found two things within me, at which I did sometimes marvel (especially considering what a blind, ignorant, sordid and ungodly wretch but just before I was).  The one was a very great softness and tenderness of heart, which caused me to fall under the conviction of what by scripture they asserted, and the other was a great bending in my mind, to a continual meditating on it, and on all other good things, which at any time I heard or read of.

For instance, when I think and meditate on what I saw at the cross, that will do it. And when I look at my embroidered coat, that will do it. Plus, when I read and study the scroll I carry in my pocket next to my heart, that will do it. When my thoughts are warmly stimulated about where I am going, that will do it too.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." —PETER F. DRUCKER

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day." –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

MÍRESE CUIDADOSAMENTE AL ESPEJO.

When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

stopping to reflect is one of the most valuable activities people can do to grow.

walking slowly through the crowd.

As Hindus say, the mind is like a chattering, drunken monkey.

Wolf Solent was able to indulge in such an orgy of concentrated thought, that these three or four hours lengthened themselves out into something beyond all human measurement.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.