Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at all times, not just in front of people, or not just in a synagogue.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Grow within the flow.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.