Quotes about Meditation

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

One should count each day a separate life.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

Meditation, prayer, covenants, ordinances, scripture study, empathy, compassion, and many different forms of the use of both conscience and imagination