Quotes about Meditation
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
- James Allen
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
- Hippocrates
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
- Henepola Gunaratana
As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
- Charles Spurgeon
Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.
- Jerome
Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
- Jerry Bridges
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
- Thomas Merton
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
- Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
- Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo