Thomas Merton Quotes

As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

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

My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.

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

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

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.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.