Quotes About Meditation

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

I never read. It prevents me from thinking.

Father Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle, a German Jesuit who spent most of his life in Japan and became a Zen teacher, said somewhere that the precondition for addressing God as a "you" is the realization that we shouldn't.

To put it bluntly but also imploringly: we Christians need more silence in our services and liturgies. Just how this might be realized, just how we

Christian prayer is generally too worshipful and therefore dualistic. And it is too wordy.

In sum, passing over to Buddhist spiritual practice has taught me, and can teach my church, that all our words, whether in Christian theology or Christian liturgy, must arise from and lead back to Silence. Only then do they have something to say.

So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy to deliver it.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Para ver cierro los ojos

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

a root cause of suffering, according to the Buddha, is our fierce sense of self-centredness. Interestingly

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Think of the circular path of each movement, in Tai Chi every movement is in curve or circle that has no ending or beginning.

Knowledge of self is acquired through a shattered mirror. But we can always close our eyes.

Sometimes silence is the best question.

a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry

You only grow when you are alone.

I pray daily... for peace.

The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.

as the intentional, learned skill of optimizing self-awareness and self-regulation of both the body and mind. In this way, meditation can facilitate better balance, self-restoration and preparedness for present and future flourishing. Meditation is the intentional practice of healthy rest, healthy preparedness, self-aware "eudaemonia," welfare or prosperity.

If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a body has no place to rest. . . . Let another continue this poem.

While listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence.

Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing.