Quotes About Meditation

So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before Thee, 0 Lord my helper and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, Septuagint) EDGES OF His WAYS: p. 160

Wherever the mind dwells apart is itself a distant place.

In meditation, you can watch thoughts emerge from emptiness and return back to that emptiness. This leads first to the realization that you are separate from those thoughts, which we normally identify with self.

Amid spring mountains, alone, I set out to find you. Axe strokes crack-crack, and quit. Quiet mystery Deepens. I follow a stream up into last snow and ice And beyond, dusk light aslant, to Stone Gate forests. Deer roam all morning here, for you harm nothing. Wanting nothing, you know chi gold and silver all Night. Facing you on a whim in such dark, the way Home lost- I feel it drifting, this whole empty boat. Tu Fu

Explanation is where the mind rests.

pope would have Poland in his prayers.

Abba Antony said, "Whatever you find in your heart to do in following God, that do, and remain within yourself in Him.

When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world around her.

Faria Kazi heard them and thought of

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

Cleanse the mirror of your heart, and you will see God.

When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.

Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.