Brennan Manning Quotes

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Be still and turn within to the great source.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.