Quotes about Meditation

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

Hey, God! I hope you're there. I want you to hear my prayer. That graven image on my shelf; Is it really you or just myself? Well, anyway, here it goes: Please keep me on my toes. Help me past my worst mistakes, Doing it for both our sakes, For an example of perfection To the Proctors of my section; Or merely for the Heaven of it, Like bread, for the leaven of it. For whatever reason may incline, Please act for yours and mine.

And he wondered: What is the now?

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

I love to take a walk to get myself present and to wind my mind down.

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I wake up and meditate for 20 minutes. The first thing I do when I wake up is say, 'Thank you.'

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.