Quotes About Meditation

Ar fi ca un l?ca? de stat cu capul în mâini în mijlocul sufletului.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.

Encontrar momentos para estar a solas y saberse recoger en la quietud y en el silencio, al menos durante unos minutos al día, es necesario para mantenerse sano y equilibrado.

Ya es bastante grave /que un solo hombre / o una sola mujer /contemplen distraídos el horizonte neutro

Para mirar los diarios, hay que bajar los ojos.

El monólogo puede ocurrir en campos varios: en el sueño, en el insomnio, en la vigilia. Casi siempre es un intento de encontrarse, de hablar consigo mismo, con los ojos abiertos o cerrados, con los labios inmóviles o mordiendo un proyecto de palabra.

Qué espléndida laguna es el silencio.

your own?' the boy asked. Stravinsky concentrated on

By definition, the monastic way was designed precisely to allow creatures of the earth to rise toward a purer spirituality.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The hands-down most important spiritual discipline is getting into God's Word on a daily basis. When you open the Bible, God opens His mouth.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

Quiet is a think tank of the soul."17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

The Bible wasn't meant merely to be read. It was meant to be prayed through, meditated on, and lived out. If all you do is read it, all you've done is audit the Word of God. And you don't get credit for an audit. You've simply been educated beyond the level of your obedience.

The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.

It's no coincidence that being watchful and prayerful are coupled by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Colossians: "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." The word watchful is a throwback to the ancient watchmen whose job it was to sit on the city walls and scan the horizon for attacking armies or trading caravans. They saw sooner and further than anyone else. Prayer opens our spiritual eyes so we see sooner and further.

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

the shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. That's why I keep a prayer journal. Next to my Bible, nothing is more sacred to me than my journal.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Prayer gives us a God's-eye view. It heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities that are beyond our five senses.

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

La oración y la imaginación son directamente proporcionales entre sí;

dream big, pray hard, and think long.

But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.

A self-imposed workout is Western meditation at its finest—not tranquil Zen breaths, but all-American panting and puffing, followed by a peace that may be as fine in its way as anything the monks can produce with two hours