Quotes about Meditation

Turn your car into a monastery.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.

Everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path.

Spiritual rest comes through faith.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.

The contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

First, you must read it, not as you read other books, but slowly and thoughtfully (that is why I made it very short) and above all prayerfully, that is, under the eye of God, in the presence of Truth and therefore in absolute honesty. Second, you must actually do it, not just read about doing it, think about doing it, understand how to do it, plan to do it, or imagine yourself doing it. It is a cookbook, not a dinner.

Learning to pray is dress rehearsal for eternal life.

Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.