9 Metaphors for meditation

Meditation, in the spiritual sense in which I am now using it, is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.

She instructed Bessie that prayer, good reading, and meditation are the keys to use to unlock God's great storehouse of blessings.

They explored villages and hamlets for obscure legends and folk tales, for nursery songs, even; and bringing to bear on such things at once a human affection and a wise scholarship, their meditation on the insignificant became the basis of their scientific greatness and the source of their popularity.

"The second meditation is the meditation of pity, in which you think of all beings in distress, vividly representing in your imagination their sorrows and anxieties so as to arouse a deep compassion for them in your soul.

LOVE ENTERING INTO THE INFINITE SAINTS, SAGES, AND SAVIORS; THE LAW OF SERVICE THE REALIZATION OF PERFECT PEACE THE POWER OF MEDITATION Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity.

Until now, his meditations had been most frequently those of fear and wrath,the awful majesty of God, the terrible punishment of sinners, which he conceived with all that haggard, dreadful sincerity of vigor which characterized the modern Etruscan phase of religion of which the "Inferno" of Dante was the exponent and the out-come.

Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it, and whatsoever you constantly meditate upon you will not only come to understand, but will grow more and more into its likeness, for it will become incorporated into your very being, will become, in fact, your very self.

" "My meditations this morning have been sweet, on the words, 'Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.'

Behind the work of the reformer is the dream of the reformer, the meditation of the mystic, the seer.

9 Metaphors for  meditation