Quotes About Meditation

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

Proper recitation of the Qur'an opens up the reader to new meanings at every reading. "When meaning repeats itself for someone who is reciting the Qur'an, he has not recited it as it should be recited. This is proof of his ignorance" (F. IV

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silence and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech

I praise the Frenchman [La Bruyère], his remark was shrewd—How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!But grant me still a friend in my retreatWhom I may whisper—solitude is sweet.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

O Solitude! where are the charmsThat sages have seen in thy face?

Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books....

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.

What you say is true,' said Fr. Dioscuros with a smile. 'You can pray anywhere. After all, God is everywhere, so you can find him everywhere.' He gestured to the darkening sand dunes outside: 'But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself . And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?

One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

There are four things that we know improve brain health and brain function," says Shubin Stein. "Meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Well, Christian, prize thou the word, fed savourily on the word, whether it be dished forth in a sermon at the public, or in a conference with some Christian friend in private, or in a more secret duty of reading and meditation by thy solitary self.

Thou knowest not but, as Isaac met his bride when he went into the fields to meditate, so thou mayest meet thy beloved while walking by thy meditations in this garden of the promises.

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

Prayer, it is the very natural breath of faith.

He is the best student in divinity that studies most upon his knees[26]

The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my toes.

All that could happen was alone with me and I was alone with it.