Quotes About Meditation

I journal at four or five in the morning.

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

My mind's my kingdom.

I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.

Somehow, it always worked. Kneeling at the side of my bed and talking to the Lord made everything okay.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

I got a house... in Effingham, so they lock me up in my hermitic seal, and if they knock, I don't answer the door. I am immersed in my world.

I've started meditation. I even train in Kung Fu. I'm into my juicing, my healthy eating - my whole lifestyle has taken a massive turn.

My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.

When I'm in labor, I like it to be very 'namaste.' I can't take care of other people at that time.

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

How comforting to know that all answers are as close as our quiet moments. God never chooses to keep the answers from us. We simply fail to quiet our thoughts long enough to heed them. Our minds race, obsessively, all too often. We jump from one scenario to another, one fear to another, one emotion to another. And each time our thoughts capture a new focus, we push the answer we seek further into the background.

Some folks pray on it. Me? I write about it.

When to Be Quiet I will have many occasions to open my mouth in the days ahead. But

Read the psalms out loud to God, allowing the words to become your own. Then write out your own specific prayers to him as well. It will amaze you when you go back later and see the ways that God answered your prayers.

When we read the Bible, we learn. However, when we write out biblical commands in a way that is personal to us, we allow the Word to take root deep within our hearts.

In the afternoon we can't forget what God told us in the morning.

Imagine lying on ice and not being cold. We are all in corpse pose on the mats. What she really said was imagine a place of safety and peace.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference today.

Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose.