“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman
Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
“The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.”
I. SPIRIT, 10. Solitude
Orphic Sayings
Context: Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
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