Quotes About Meditation

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

As outside, so within. Thoughts arose, quite naturally, and I treated them the same as sounds or smells. As always, they would arise, abide, and pass. If I didn't engage with them, there was nowhere for them to remain—they had no power to do so on their own.

Casting a stone into a tranquil lake has a much greater impact than throwing the same stone into a turbulent sea. So, too, the understanding of a settled mind.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this process by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Our protocols utilize intravenous glutathione and hyperbaric oxygen to optimize mitochondrial function as well as foods and supplements that help undo the damage done to the brain by years of stressful living. We find that mitochondria, the mind, and the brain respond extraordinarily quickly to these interventions. Then, through shamanic meditation practices, we can heal from toxic emotions and discover inner peace.

Hunting is an exercise in faith … no, not faith, but optimistic patience.

Theological reflection…is a rigorous and prayerful discipline of taking the time to meditate on my text and how it relates to God's plan of redemption. It is an exercise that asks how my passage relates to the Bible as a whole, especially to the saving acts of God in Jesus.

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When meditating one dwells in the empty, silent no-thing-ness from which mental phenomena arise; when thoughts and images appear one lets them go.

Winnie would never be free of religious thinking, and she couldn't imagine ever wanting to be. She just needed a new schedule for her faith, one whose appointments with the divine were arranged not only through sermons, songs, and scripture, but rather on a walk-in basis with rocks, water, air, blood, space, and time.

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still Even among these rocks.

Beings as complex as ourselves need retreats from others to explore the depths of our character and our destiny. We need regular periods of solitude to replenish ourselves, to locate new sources of creativity and self-knowledge, and to discover possibilities in our souls that are invisible when we are with others.

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When I have a particular case in hand," he explained, "I . . . love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. ZEN SAYING

By participating in certain programs, such as that of the Commonweal Center in California (which we'll discuss later), patients try to take charge of their cancer, to learn to live in greater harmony with their bodies and their past, to seek peace of mind through yoga and meditation, and to choose foods that fight cancer while avoiding those that promote its development.

I am a ducker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.

I never planned to pray. I just looked back and realized I had been praying. …. What did I pray for?

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

There's a simple reason why people don't get involved with reason, logic and mathematics. They find these extremely difficult. There's a simple reason why people get involved with faith, prayer, mysticism, meditation and mindfulness: they're easy! Anyone can do them.