Quotes about Meditation

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The silence was an intense roar.

But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head

And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.

Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.

They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.