Quotes About Meditation

I had no altar, but I did not need one: anywhere I was became my temple.

Souvent Me Souvient (Remember Me Often)-The Darwin Conspiracy

Seek not thyself without thyself to find.

The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer.

Oswald Chambers, a man who wrote profoundly and elegantly on prayer, made a radical statement when he said, "The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God." Good heavens—it's not? What then is the purpose? "Prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God." 1 A mighty truth is being uncovered here.

the rooted person is able to meditate—give sustained attention to—the revelation of God. Not swipe, not multitask. Lingering focus.

To be clear, I am not listening for an audible voice, as I would if you and I were talking. I am listening for his gentle voice within, for that is where Jesus dwells—within our very hearts (Eph. 3:17).

essential prayer is conversational. It

Now, if I am having a hard time hearing God's voice, or being certain that I have heard, I will sometimes try on one answer, then the other. Still in a posture of quiet listening, I will add to my prayers, Are you saying yes, Jesus? Are you saying you want us to go? Pause. Listen. Or are you saying no—you don't want us to go? Often as we try on one answer or another, our spirit can feel the guidance of the Holy Spirit through a confirmation, or a strong sense of reservation.

there are times when silence is a poem.

Just a golden body throwing stones aimlessly into the sea.

Dave Hughes, in his fine book An Angler's Astoria, has

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

She laid her crucifix and prayer book on her stool

As Mary knelt, she recited in Latin the psalm In te Domino confido, "In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust.

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

But in 1946 Wittgenstein fell in love with Ben Richards, an undergraduate student of medicine at Cambridge who was nearly forty years younger than him; this relationship brought him great joy and continued until his death.

If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.

him dumfounded as he chanted the Gregorian

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

Fine writing, next to doing nothing, is the best thing in the world.

the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation