Quotes of: Meditation Keyword

My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.

Kendall Jenner

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Rick Wright

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Amit Ray

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Amit Ray

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

William Godwin

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

Al Franken

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” c...

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

entre plusieurs opinions également reçues, je ne choisissais que les plus modérées, tant à cause que ce sont toujours les plus commodes pour la pratique, et vraisemblablement les meilleures, tous excès ayant coutume d'être mauvais, comme aussi...

Discours de La Methode: Suivi Des Meditations Metaphysiques

[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same obj...

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled skin, —-what a pity—- Poor, dirty, old man, He is not me, absolutely not. Land and life Fishing in the ocean...

Break the Mirror

You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular "spiritual" path. Raising a challenged child, or caring for a failing parent for years on end, is...

A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying attention. Dynamic meditation in everyday existence invo...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

The word ‘pranayama’, often referred to as alternate breathing, comes from the Sanskrit meaning ‘extension of life force’ or ‘extension of breath’. At times, we are going to have days where we are bombarded with one task after another. Th...

Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is, incidentally, absolute perfect peace. It is basically an existential “time-out...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas,...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own eyes. What you begin to see is that the place where you thought your life occurred - the cave of rumination and memory, the caul...

Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

[first lines] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and s...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Celebration of Discipline

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell