Quotes About Meditation

Exchange every erupting thought for just one: the name of Jesus.

Without the air of prayer, we die spiritually.

The more often you feel the need for prayer, the better!

Don't just do something, stand there.

How does one make muddy water clear? Be still, and the water will clear in time. How does one become still? Let everything happen, and stillness appears.

Let him think of God as often as he can. Let him gradually develop within himself this small but sacred practice.

Please remember that I have recommended that you meditate often on God, day and night, during business and recreation. He is always near you and with you; do not leave Him alone. You would consider it rude to ignore a friend who came to visit you. Then why neglect God? Do not forget Him. Meditate on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious vocation of a Christian. You could say that this is our profession.

He said that we should establish ourselves in a sense of God's Presence by continually communing with Him.

Though not often discussed, there is a split of sorts in the meditating world—namely, between concentration and mindfulness techniques.

I want to read and write and be very quiet.

Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessions and go live in a hut on a shelf of rock and watch the sunrise every morning. Up before the sun! What a dreadful idea; he shuddered.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Far off was the gentle roar of the sea, a constant lullaby. Except,

Look at the eyes now -- the eyes of an Old Believer. Part of his mind was away somewhere, dancing with itself.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Solitude is the place of purification.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

King of Prussia, PA

There is no greater work of minimalist art than the dry garden in the Zen Buddhist temple of Ry?an-ji, Kyoto. This comprises fifteen rocks of various sizes set in a sea of white, raked gravel; almost nothing, but you could look at it for hours. It was made about 500 years before the modernist architect Mies van der Rohe remarked that less is more.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

a remarkably gentle and insightful monk, Theophan, who says, "You must descend from your head to your heart. At present your thoughts of God are in your head. And God Himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in the summer.

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander