#meditation

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#learning #meditation #motivation #pride #reading

One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mindfullness #stephen-richards #stillness-of-the-mind #change

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspirational #meditation #steve-jobs #zen #inspirational

* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness) ↗

— Brennan Manning

#forgiveness

Respond; don't react. Listen; don't talk. Think; don't assume. ↗

— Raji Lukkoor

#meditation #mindfulness #inspirational

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#breathing #feelings #meditation #mindfulness #freedom

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice. ↗

— Sylvia Boorstein

#meditation #mindfulness #peace #change

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul. ↗

— Amit Ray

#lifestyle #living #meditation #yoga #inspirational

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

— Toshimi A. Kayaki

#lifestyle #meditation #inspirational

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation