Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

Go slowly, breathe and smile.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

I pray daily... for peace.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.