Quotes about Meditation

If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.

His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

He ceases to argue about God who has found God within. Relying upon that calm strength which is not the strength of self, he lives God, manifesting in his daily life the Highest Goodness, which is Eternal Life.

Mediation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

He who earnestly meditates first perceives a truth

Said the divine Gautama, the Buddha, He who gives himself up to vanity, and does not give himself up to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation, and he instructed his disciples in the following Five Great Meditations:--

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.