Passage Meditation

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ~ Jeremy Taylor

Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. ~ Owen Feltham

Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. ~ Francis Quarles

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. And honor the reward of action. ~ Francis Quarles

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,–as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon. ~ Thomas Hartwell Horne

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ~ Swami Sivananda

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time. ~ Max Picard

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. ~ Buddha

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more. ~ Ziggy Marley

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. ~ Goethe

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. ~ Bhagavad Gita

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. ~ Eknath Easwaran

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. ~ Isaac Watts

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgment. ~ Isaac Watts

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. ~ Bhagavad Gita

The man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of his years. ~ Isaac Taylor

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

The flowering of love is meditation. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Sleep is the best meditation. ~ Dalai Lama

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~ Diana Robinson

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own. ~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. ~ Swami Sivananda

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. ~ Author Unknown

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ~ Walter Bagehot

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.~  Joseph Hall

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. ~ Patanjali

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. ~ Daniel Goleman

Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. ~ Shvetashvatara Upanishad

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years. ~ Isaac Taylor

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