A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. – Johannes Tauler
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. – Johannes Tauler
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own. – Johannes Tauler
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. – Johannes Tauler
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts