Quotes about Meditation

I believe that there are two necessary paths enabling us to move toward wisdom: a radical journey inward and a radical journey outward. For

I believe the contemplative mind is the mind of Christ.

Without an inner life, our outer prayer will soon become superficial, ego-centered, and even counterproductive on the spiritual path.

If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

To keep the mind space open, we need some form of contemplative or meditation practice. This has been the most neglected in recent centuries, substituting the mere reciting and "saying" of prayers, which is not the same as a contemplative mind, and often merely confirms us in our superior or fear-based system.

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.

Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.