Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.
How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
A man in his own secret meditation Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made In art or politics.
Meditation is waiting on God.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.
When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close the room, sit by yourself, and let the anger come up as much as it can. If you feel like beating, beat a pillow.
We all have issues and we have usually come by them honestly.
I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.
Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.
. . . there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.
Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.
If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.