Quotes About Meditation

The meditation of a humanist is on the people and not on the nation. But a true nationalist has his mind both on the people and on the reservation of the nation.

The purpose of meditation is not to calm the mind. It's all about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Familiarise yourself with good and evil, the shortest path to eternal wisdom.

The secret to eternal peace of mind is not in frequent prayers or meditations, but in perfecting each prayer. Aim for quality over quantity.

The so-called third eye is not an eye in itself, but a gateway to infinity or self-realisation.

There is a remedy in the bath that shower lovers mistakenly ignore.

There is a sound of humility in the word 'under-standing'. Meditate upon it, then lower yourself to truly understand.

There is no inspiration without being armed with the ability of self-talk.

We learn better when we are alone, instead of getting involved with large groups of people.

You are required to pray, meditate and practice whatever you have been teaching to others.

You ought to go beyond the corporeal things and explore the divinity that is residing within you.

You should meditate and dedicate your entire life to the Creator.

Your mind will still work even when you pretend you were sleeping. Thought, like consciousness, will never cease to exist.

Your thoughts are not yours until when you start pondering upon them.

Time spent in prayer is not time wasted but time invested.

You need to make sure you are in the Word when you come before God—that you've read the Word, that the Word is in you, that you are obeying the Word. Otherwise, you will enter God's presence with your own ideas and attitudes. However

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.

Honramos y celebramos nuestra complejidad y nuestra simplicidad haciendo continuamente cinco cosas. Contamos historias. Realizamos rituales. Creamos belleza. Trabajamos en comunidades. Meditamos en creencias.

If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

That is our vocation: to be in prayer, perhaps wordless prayer, at the point where the world is in pain.

My fourth starting-point towards a fresh approach is to insist on some kind of lectio continua, both personally and publicly. There are, to be sure, many times and occasions when we need to choose special readings to suit a particular moment or challenge. But the church's staple diet ought to be to work through the books of the Bible on a more or less continuous loop.

If we spend time in the prayer of lament, new light may come, rather than simply the repetition of things we might have wanted to say anyway.

The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.