Quotes About Meditation

Lord, perhaps you don't hear my prayers. But I've never prayed with the expectation that it would affect your actions; I prayed with the expectation that it would affect mine.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has." ~Blink

How can this experience I am now having support the awakening of greater clarity and compassion in my life?

Flecks of foam on the fountain's lips as it reads aloud from the scripture of water.

I've got no attention span.

I have a short attention span.

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

I speak to God every day.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

Silence is safer than speech.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

I think that's a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they're in constant prayer with God - so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

I started teaching spinning early when it was first happening in the '90s. I love the mind-body connection of spinning.