Quotes About Meditation

I am convinced, however, that our constant activity is fruitless without first making that humble act of kneeling to pray. I am convinced that prayer is not only our greatest privilege, but also our greatest source of power.

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

by stopping to be still in the ways described above, prior to opening my Bible, I can prime my heart to hear from God in a focused way with far fewer distractions.

Christians read the Bible not as a document from history but as a world into which they enter so that God may meet them there.

The third noble truth holds that suffering can be transformed and healed.

The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.

Providing a minute or two of silence between questions allows deeply restorative physiological cycles to engage.

The problem with deep thinking was it could lead to unpleasant conclusions.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

No quería pensar en esto y procuraba no pensar. Probablemente ese era el motivo de que me sintiera tan aturdido. Cada vez que notaba la formación de un pensamiento, me decía: "No pienses eso, no pienses eso, no pienses eso". Aquello era como liquidar a un montón de moscas con un matamoscas

My thoughts are really all I think about.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

Seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: "The eternal silence of the infinite spaces terrifies me.

Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude.

Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.

if you restrict earthly things, you set up your thoughts free for the spiritual.

He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

he thought he could sit on this deck and watch that stream for the rest of his life.

You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid.

I stood knee deep in the cold water, eyes closed, and listened to the end of the day over the river. Then I opened my eyes and pulled the line and began making long casts upstream just off the bank. The new rod was light and alive in my hand, it was beautiful, and the line sang out fast and smooth with a whisper like scratching a guitar string. I didn't mind the sound at all.