Quotes About Meditation

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit.

The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space—it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.

everything else out of his mind the way

shakes alone." Nick

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

The Bible soundly condemns every form of occult practice (Deuteronomy 18:9-14), which includes modern practices such as fortune-telling, Eastern meditation, reading palms and tarot cards, channeling, astral projection, astrology, Ouija boards, séances, crystal balls, or any other similar activities. Acts 16:16-18 and 19:11-20 link the occult to demonism.

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È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

When you walk, cherish the silence. Let your mind wander. The child within picks up crayons & begins to write.

Sometimes I wish I could put my whole life on pause...just make everything stop for a while so I can figure shit out.

the tangible benefits of prayer are mere by-products of a healthy prayer life.

yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

Yoga is a tool for realigning our awareness with the divine, creating a state of oneness that is our true nature.

integral yoga aims at "opening the springs of creative inspiration hidden in the human psyche" and the "active participation