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Quotes About Centering

Recover your zero point
~ Ilchi Lee
Chakra Meditation is designed to bring you back to neutrality, to a place of balance. You might call this "Zero Point", a place where you can begin again with a fresh, new mind.
~ Ilchi Lee
Pay attention to your breathing," she chided. "Not my butt.
~ Lori Wilde
I've found lyrics in songs that always center me.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
~ Jack Kornfield
Whereas in the past my Christianity was focused on work and effort and striving, I can honestly say that the center from which my spiritual life flows today is the time I set aside daily to be silent in the presence of God, emptying my mind as best I can of words and thoughts, and simply inviting God to fill that open space. Every time I do this I feel as if I fall into a well of love—a love that centers me, calms me, and heals me on deeper levels than my conscious mind understands.
~ Unknown
Affirmations help anchor and center us; they also remind us of what's important and why we make certain choices in our lives. You
~ Mallika Chopra
Practice moving quickly from: Oh fuck! (reaction) to Oh God! (emotional release) to Oh Jeez (re-centre yourself) to Oh well (re-focus) to OK (you are ready to fix this)
~ Mark Goulston
What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
What allows us to center our existence is also what prevents us from centering it completely, and the anonymity of our body is invariably both freedom and servitude. Thus, to summarize, the ambiguity of being in the world is expressed by the ambiguity of our body, and this latter is understood through the ambiguity of time.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
He needed to find that hard place inside that would center him like the middle of a compass. Throughout his life, the needle would point in various directions, but he would have to know where he stood.
~ Unknown
We should sit so that our energy increases of itself and brims over instead of putting physical pressure on the lower abdomen by force.
~ Unknown
Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
~ Patti Smith
Letting go is not about sacrifice, nor does it breed lazy inactivity; it's simply a return to Being. It is a shift from an assertive focus on action and results in a softer, intuitive state where you will "be with," notice, and appreciate what's in the moment with you. It's about moving from noise into silence. When done right, letting go is about centering, and it always leads to your home frequency.
~ Penney Peirce
There is a reason Scripture instructs us to "hold fast our confession" of faith (Heb. 4:14), and to pray without being double minded or without wavering (James 1:5–8). Confession is always verbal and never just mental agreement. Prayer is verbal petitioning but holding on to your prayer centers on confession
~ Unknown
By tending to yourself first, paradoxically, you are in a better position to tend to your child. When you can feel your center, can notice that your breath slows down and you experience the fluidity of changing sensations, you have moved out of a momentary "freeze." Your energy is now available to pay close attention to your child's needs and expression. In this way you will naturally circumvent complicating your child's reactions with your own.
~ Peter A. Levine