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Quotes About Centering

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
~ Joel Osteen
Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].
~ Leslie Ludy
The only prudence in life is concentration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
closer, and to be concentrating on Whitehall.
~ Erik Larson
Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.
~ Tony Cardenas
Where you place your focus, there will be your Heart and that will be the Spiritual Heart.
~ Roger Delano Hinkins
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
~ Henri Nouwen
I found the secret of life to be body placement.
~ Brian Williams
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
~ Anais Nin
Centering prayer is a form of meditation that is a conscious letting go of small mind and its continuous self-centered fantasies.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
~ Robin Casarjean
Calming himself, he drew in a long breath and reminded
~ Lisa Jackson
looking for a path back to the present:
~ Sam Harris
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
~ Douglas Adams
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
~ Phil Jackson
The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It's a great way to get focused for the day.
~ BeBe Zahara Benet
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
~ Anais Nin
centering of whiteness, white tears, the racism of denying racism, hurt feelings, white supremacy performed as hurt feelings.30 She is told off, called out for calling them out, for complaining in the wrong way.
~ Sara Ahmed
Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I like to be on my own before I do a gig.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
~ Thomas Keating