George Bernard Shaw Quotes

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

Meditation is waiting on God.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

Nature is our chapel.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.