
“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
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.
Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter V - Part 1
Church News http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3273-2,00.html|, speaking at the November 6 Church Educational System fireside.
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”
"No TIme for Neutrality", p. 107
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
Context: I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. Not to set up some little cozy, holier-than-thou trysting place with some sticky, adorable divine personage who'll take you in his arms and relieve you of all your duties and make all your nasty Weltschmerzen and Professor Tuppers go away and never come back. And by God, if you have intelligence enough to see that — and you do — and yet you refuse to see it, then you're misusing the prayer, you're using it to ask for a world full of dolls and saints and no Professor Tuppers.