Quotes About Meditation

place of pilgrimage, and was known as Heavenfield

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos.

I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.

real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence

La lectura está en el umbral de la vida espiritual; puede introducirnos en ella: no la constituye.

When our mistress is alive, a great part of the thoughts which form what we call our loves come to us during the hours when she is not by our side. Thus we acquire the habit of having as the object of our meditation an absent person, and one who, even if she remains absent for a few hours only, during those hours is no more than a memory. And so death does not make any great difference.

When a mind has a tendency towards day-dreams, it's a mistake to shield it from them, to ration them. So long as you divert your mind from its day-dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will be the victim of all sorts of appearances because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.

When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak.

You have liberty to cast all your cares upon him who cares for you. By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him — you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

A morning when you become a pure vessel For what wants to ascend from silence

Meister Eckhart said that there is nothing in the world that resembles God so much as silence. Silence

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking. Thought

Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The issue when it comes to meditation is what, not if. The mind observes the impulse to meditate the way the body observes the law of gravity. Scripture has a lot to say about meditating wisely. The psalmist talks about the fruitful person as one whose "delight is in the law of the

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. -- Rom. 8:6 Set your affection on things above. -- Col. 3:2

The words of the text explained: to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. 8:6.

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Slothful and lazy souls never obtain one view of this glory. The "lion in the road" deters them from attempting it (Prov 26:13).58 Being carnal, they abhor all diligence in the use of spiritual means, such as prayer and meditation, which to them are uneasy, unpleasant, and difficult. But for others, this way shares in the blessings of the promised destination. The means of obtaining a view of the glory of Christ are of the same kind and pleasantness of the view itself.