Quotes about Meditation
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
— GK Chesterton
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
We become what we think about.
— Earl Nightingale
Use your life to wake you up.
— Pema Chodron
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.
— Will Rogers
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
— William Alexander
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
— William Hazlitt
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
— William James
Let me now only add this one word more, that he who has learned to pray, has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
— William Law
Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.
— David Brainerd