Quotes About Meditation

Mengenai kebutaan hati dan cara penyembuhannya, Nabi berkata, "segala sesuatu yang berkarat ada pengkilapnya, dan pengkilap hati adalah mengingat Allah.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

You must learn to call on the Lord. Don't sit all alone or lie on the couch, shaking your head and letting your thoughts torture you. Don't worry about how to get out of your situation or brood about your terrible life, how miserable you feel, and what a bad person you are. Instead, say, "Get a grip on yourself, you lazy bum! Fall on your knees, and raise your hands and eyes toward heaven. Read a psalm. Say the Lord's Prayer, and tearfully tell God what you need.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.

I do not always pray, nor do I always meditate on the Law of the Lord and struggle continually with sin, death, and the devil; but I put on my clothes, I sleep, I play with the children, eat, drink, etc. If all these things are done in faith, they are approved by God's judgment as having been done rightly. This

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Now I know that the songs are just tools that help us get in the right place for the presence of God to become real and tangible to us

I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.

Thinking is good," Uman said. "We like thinking.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Mais pour regner il faut se taire.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

But a woman couldn't stop her thoughts until she had them, now could she?

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?