Quotes of: Meditation Keyword

Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wand...

Andrew Weil

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Victor Hugo

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another part of what we absorb is greater confidence in Jesus' co...

God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tid...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Just as some of Jesus' first-century followers could not credit the presence of the risen Christ, so our own blindness, habit, and fear form a kind of constant fog that keeps us from seeing, and thereby believing in, the forms that grace takes in our...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way. In an exact sense, the only thing we actually can study in our life is that on whi...

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

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Doctor Zhivago

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

Eat, Pray, Love

And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.

Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian traditi...

Exploring Celtic Spirituality

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.

Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

Baby Steps to Meditation

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

Baby Steps to Meditation

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

Baby Steps to Meditation

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique