Quotes About Centering

attempting to martial his thoughts.

Cuando eso sucede, pierdo contacto con aquel lugar del centro de mi ser que me da conciencia acerca de quién soy en Dios, en el que descubro lo que he sido llamada a hacer, y donde puedo responder a su voz privilegiándola por sobre todas las otras voces. Cuando eso sucede, estoy a merced de todo tipo de fuerzas externas, llevada de aquí para allá por otras expectativas y por mis propias compulsiones.

Faith does not mean believing in the literal-factuality of the stories regardless of how improbable they seem. Rather, faith is about something far more important. It is about our relationship with God—about centering in God, being loyal (faithful) to God, and about trusting in God. Faith is the opposite of hubris and anxiety.

Faithfulness leads us to pay attention to our relationship to God—through such attention, we become even more deeply centered in God. Trust is the fruit of that deeper centering. It grows as we center more and more in God.

In this life, a radical centering in God leads to a deepening trust that transforms the way we see and live our lives. Seeing, living, trusting, and centering are all related in complex ways. They are all matters of the heart, and not primarily of the head. And in our deaths, dying means trusting in the buoyancy of God, that the one who has carried us in this life is the one into whom we die.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.

Let the breath lead the way.

Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment—as short as following three breaths—to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

Even when it hurts like hell, hold fast. The pain is the arrow coming out, not the arrow going in. Faith is not about trusting a God who will rescue you from arrows but trusting in the process. Faith will center you, not rescue you. As the pain and fear pass, I hold fast.

I think I've got something else to help center my life.

I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

There is a time to be still in the pose.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

My favorite breathing technique is to inhale and then slowly open your jaw wide, and exhale while saying, out loud, "Ahhhh . . ." This practice immediately centers and calms me.

We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

I coped by finding a space where I could just…breathe.

Writing is a kind of centering, a kind of meditation. I find it to be profoundly rewarding. Actually, I'm an addict. If I go too long, and so far that hasn't been longer than a week, I start to feel unsettled, nervous. I begin to feel that I'm not engaged, a disconnection is threatening my world, that I'm being passed by and I'm both failing myself and the world by not writing about it.

Concentration is the secret of power.

We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

I think it's very important to find something that you do that helps center you.

I try to get a workout for myself in before I work with my clients. I do this to center myself.