Quotes about Meditation

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

So if meditation did liberate you from obedience to these feelings, it would be, in a certain sense, dispelling an illusion—the illusion you implicitly subscribe to when you follow the feeling, the illusion that the rage, and for that matter the revenge it inspires, is fundamentally "good." It turns out the feeling isn't even good in the basic sense of self-interest.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind.

The second exercise is a favorite of Yogi Raman's. He used to go an entire day without speaking, except in response to a direct question." "Kind of like a vow of silence?" "Actually that's exactly what it was, John. The Tibetan monks who popularized this practice believed that to hold one's tongue for an extended period of time would have the effect of enhancing one's discipline.

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.