Evelyn Underhill Quotes

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Your mind is nirvana.

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.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.