“Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.” ShouldMindStatesMeditationAwarenessMindfulnessWorshipConstantState Of MindNeglectedExcluded Author:Ramakrishna
“It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.” MeditationConstantDistractionToilContinuityHabitualInterruptions Book:Silences Source: Silences
“Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.” ThinkingMenWholeLightSpiritualLife IsSpiritCitiesMeditationAirModernOfficeMachinesConstantIntentionNoiseFlightAdvertisingPropagandaShopsWildernessMechanismExhaustedSuggestionsEnteringEverlastingModern LifeNeurosisCity Life Author:Thomas Merton
“The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.” SoulChristianMeditationHealthyTestsConstantResponseReformDaily LifeIntrovertExtrovertsGod's Presence Author:J. I. Packer
“Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.” MindMeditationWeaknessYogaGainsConstantDistraction Book:Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.” Has BeensStillsSelfStatesStrongMeditationEgoRemainsConstantAwakeningSupremeImpressionAgentsRealisedIdentificationObstinate Author:Adi Shankara