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“Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.”
“Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usu...”
“The safest course for an Infinite Way student to follow is to admit freely that he does not know how to pray, how to go out or come in, or what to pray for, and then open himself in receptivity to ...”
“We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.”
“The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.”
“Centering our thoughts on God begins with what I like to call discovery. That is, when we discover a great truth about God, we begin to meditate on that truth until it captivates our whole thinking...”
“He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.”
“I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.”
“Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.”
“Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it...”
“The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore G...”
“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.”
“There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such...”
“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It...”
“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness...”
“The Way to do is to be.”
“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.”
“The act of meditation is being spacious.”
“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 ...”
“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”
