Quotes about Meditation

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573).

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

We always become what we behold; the presence that we practice matters.

But in this book, I use "prayer" as the umbrella word for any interior journeys or practices that allow you to experience faith, hope, and love within yourself.

Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: "A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite—are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.