Quotes about Meditation

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.

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time to get alone with him, and to give him time everyday to work in you, and to keep up the link of connection between you and himself, he cannot give you that blessing of his unbroken fellowship.

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.

Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.

Lord! teach me to tarry with Thee in the school, and give Thee time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.

Be silent before God and let Him bless you.