Quotes about Meditation
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
- Anonymous
Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
- Anonymous
Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.
- Anonymous
When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.
- Thomas Manton
Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
- Teresa of Avila
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- GK Chesterton
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
- Calvin Coolidge
The silence was an intense roar.
- Jack Kerouac
But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head
- Jack Kerouac
And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.
- Jack Kerouac
Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.
- Jack Kerouac
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
- Jack Kerouac