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Quotes About Meditating

If, when I am restless, I am wishing there were a God, why not trade that for a belief that tells me that when I am meditating, I am God, and that the momentary excursions into humanity are nothing more than illusion?
~ Ravi Zacharias
I wonder how much of our mental time is spent worrying, reasoning, and fearing—possibly more than is spent on anything else. Instead of meditating on our problems, let's choose to meditate on the "alls" of God. He says you can cast "… [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you…" (1 Pet. 5:7). Let us realize how unlimited His power is and trust Him to do what we cannot do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Believers who are living in close fellowship with God are not going to think about how terrible they are. They will have righteousness-based thoughts that come through meditating regularly on who they are "in Christ.
~ Joyce Meyer
The phrase, not dissimilar in sound from the mantra, got tangled up with his meditating, preventing him from achieving either peace
~ Douglas Preston
I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.
~ Divya Khosla Kumar
I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.
~ Michael Chandler
There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You really had to feel sorry for those goblins.
~ Eoin Colfer
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
~ Philip K. Dick
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
~ Forest Whitaker
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.
~ Frederick Lenz
I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
~ Katy Perry
It has become fashionable to separate the spiritual (psychic and emotional) from the political, to see them as contradictory or antithetical. 'What do you mean, a poetic revolutionary, a meditating gunrunner?
~ Audre Lorde
Faced with this endless British troublemaking, Napoleon was, in Bonapartist French eyes, like a kung fu master, meditating peacefully on his prayer mat about progress and democracy while a gang of irritating English boys threw acorns at him, finally forcing him to get up and give them a slap.
~ Stephen Clarke
The existence of conscience, for example, provides some evidence for that, as does the fact that religious experiences can reliably be induced chemically, as well as through practices such as dancing, chanting, fasting, and meditating.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Architecture cannot, however, become an instrument of mere functionality, bodily comfort and sensory pleasure without loosing its existentially meditating task. A distinct sense of distance, resistance and tension has to be maintained in relation to programme, function and comfort.
~ Juhani Pallasmaa
The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death.
~ Sorin Cerin
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
~ M.I.A.
I always felt that everything that happened was incredibly exhilarating and massively puzzling at the same time. I can even remember, when I was six or seven, digging a hole beneath a tree. And I would go into this tomb, this cave that I had made, and would lie there, meditating, for hours.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied, and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.
~ Thomas Merton
I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
~ Katy Perry
The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.
~ Troy Polamalu
Hello? You tracking at all? Or were you planning on sleeping through this round. The lids on that red stare lifted. I'm not sleeping. Meditating. Whatever. I wasn't meditating. Fine. Psychically manipulating energy fields—— You make me dizzy when you pace. It's vertigo diversion.
~ J.R. Ward
Many Jedi would raise eyebrows at the thought of meditating in a bar, but Vos had done it before.
~ Christie Golden