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2 Sermon Illustrations on Meditation

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2 sermon illustrations on meditation — stories, anecdotes and meditations from classic illustration collections, each credited to the book it came from.

Meditation, Enforced

Prolonged meditation deepens appreciation and reveals new insights over time.

In the Royal Gallery at Dresden may be often seen a group of connoisseurs, who sit for hours before a single painting. They walk around those halls and corridors, whose walls are so eloquent with the triumphs of art; and they come back, and pause again before that one masterpiece. They go away, and return the next day; and again the first and the last object which charms their eye is that canvas on which genius has pictured more of beauty than on any other in the world. Weeks are spent every year in the study of that one work of Raphael's. Lovers of art cannot enjoy it to the full till they have made it their own by prolonged communion with its matchless forms. Says one of its admirers, "I could spend an hour every day, for years, upon that assemblage of human and angelic and divine ideals, and, on the last day of the last year, discover some new beauty and a new joy." I have seen men standing in the street before an engraving of that gem of the Dresden Gallery a longer time than a good man will sometimes devote to his evening prayer. Phelps.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster

Meditation, Result of

Focused meditation leads to calmness and superhuman intuition in solving problems.

By meditation, one of the greatest of English engineers, a man uncouth, and unaccustomed to regular discipline of mind, is said to have accomplished his most marvellous triumphs. He threw bridges over almost impracticable torrents, and pierced the eternal mountains for his viaduct. Sometimes a difficulty brought all the work to a pause: then he would shut himself up in his room, eat nothing, speak to no one, abandon himself intensely to the contemplation of that on which his heart was set, and, at the end of two or three days, would come forth serene and calm, walk to the spot, and quietly give orders which seemed the result of superhuman intuition. This was meditation. Rec. F. W. Robertson.

from New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations · Elon Foster

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