Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that-an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.