Quotes about Meditation

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Pray sensibly.Pray scrupulously.Pray selflessly.Pray seriously.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks." And

The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.