Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Davidson

In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

William Martin

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Richard Rohr

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Saint Francis de Sales

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Mike Love

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

Joko Beck

Meditation is not about doing something

Jarome Iginla

It awakens something you never even knew you had when you're that close - so we'll have to work at finding that chemistry again,

Ivo Andric

What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Larry Kramer

There is an awakening occurring at the traditional media companies.

Vera Farmiga

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Josh Miller

I guess we saw those results. We just have to get better at what we do. As far as personnel, we have the guys to get it done. It was an awakening for us to realize we've got to get better.

Hu Jintao

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

Gabe White

I just laid awake all night last night, staring at the TV. Physically and mentally, it's just time to move on. Just time to let somebody else do it.

Michael Franti

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Andres Duany

Cities move slowly, but the storm awakened people. Crisis always does. And great things are possible. And with a great awakening comes the dislodging of money.

Richard Rohr

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nothing could have survived our life.

Manny Pacquiao

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Juan Manuel Fangio

Women rule our lives, don't they?

Louise Hay

How we start our day is often how we live our lives

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us