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Quotes About Meditation

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~ Phillips Brooks
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
~ Ramakrishna
To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.
~ Samuel Chadwick
In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God
~ Stephane Grappelli
Meditation is waiting on God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
Worship God. It's easier than thinking.
~ Chapman Cohen
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
~ Thomas Merton
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
~ Victor Hugo
God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.
~ Victor Hugo
Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.
~ Mark Hart
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
~ Meister Eckhart
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
~ Mother Teresa
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.
~ Rajneesh
Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.
~ Rajneesh
Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.
~ Rajneesh
Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.
~ Ram Dass
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.
~ David Jeremiah
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.
~ George Harrison