Quotes about Meditation

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

must look at you with the eyes of David in Psalm 139:

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four.

The "interior castle" of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow.