Quotes About Meditation

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?