Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

The Reformed Pastor

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

The Raven Warrior

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

A Sand County Almanac

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

Scarlet

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

It is a pure soul who can hold true the in­no­cence and time­less­ness of pas­sion in an­oth­er soul. Each un­veil­ing the great­est pieces of the oth­er, locked to­geth­er at the heart for eter­ni­ty

Saving Grace

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Shade of His Hand

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

Summer Island

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

The Sum of All Kisses

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition