Quotes About Meditation

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

God calls us not only to know His Word, but also to pray it.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

Every cell in us worships God.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

When one chants the holy name of Krishna, Krishna dances on the tongue and one wishes one had thousands of ears and thousands of mouths with which to better appreciate the holy names of God.