Quotes about Meditation

we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us.

But in Solitude, we can pay attention to our inner self

The core of all prayer is indeed listening, obediently standing in the presence of God.

Meditation means to let the word descend from our minds into our hearts and thus to become enfleshed.

Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.

But this leaves us with a very difficult question. Is there a way to move from our worry-filled life to the life of the Spirit? Must we simply wait passively until the Spirit comes along and blows away our worries? Are there any ways by which we can prepare ourselves for the life of the Spirit and deepen that life once it has touched us?

One good way to listen is to listen with a sacred text: a psalm or a prayer, for instance. The Hindu spiritual writer Eknath Easwaran showed me the great value of learning a sacred text by heart and repeating it slowly in the mind, word by word, sentence by sentence. In this way, listening to the voice of love becomes not just a passive waiting, but an active attentiveness to the voice that speaks to us through the words of the Scriptures.

Without reading the word, silence becomes stale, and without silence, the word loses its re-creative power. The word leads to silence and silence to the word. The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.

In the depths of his anguish, Henri made a conscious choice to spend a good part of every day in solitude, seeking God.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him. Real prayer comes from the heart.

I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way to that place is prayer, unceasing prayer, Many struggles and much pain can clear the way but I am certain that only unceasing prayer can let me enter it.