Quotes about Meditation

All good meditative prayer is a conversion of our entire self to God.

The only One Who can teach me to find God is God, Himself, Alone.

Discipline is most important, and without it no serious meditation will ever be possible. But it should be one's own discipline, not a routine mechanically imposed from the outside.

The contemplative way is, in fact, not a way. Christ alone is the way, and he is invisible. The 'desert' of contemplation is simply a metaphor to explain the state of emptiness which we experience when we have left all ways, forgotten ourselves and taken the invisible Christ as our way.

Let there be a place somewhere in which you can breathe naturally, quietly, and not have to take your breath in continuous short gasps. A place where your mind can be idle, and forget its concerns, descend into silence, and worship the Father in secret.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the place which I have never brought anyone to see, as the place whose silence has mothered an interior life known to no one but God alone.

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.")

But in the actual experience of contemplation all other experiences are momentarily lost. They "die" to be born again on a higher level of life.

But there is nothing to prevent a layman from taking just one Psalm a day, for instance in his night prayers, and reciting it thoughtfully, pausing to meditate on the lines which have the deepest meaning for him.

Go into the desert not to escape other men but in order to find them in God.