Quotes About Mindfulness

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Meditation and prayer are my secret weapons, and when I use them, I can move mountains.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.