Quotes about Meditation

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V

Make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.