Grace Gealey Quotes

I strove to maintain a spiritual practice, but since I was being pulled in so many directions, I couldn't seem to stay steady and grounded. I used to get overwhelmed when I thought about everything there was to do, and I was exhausted much of the time.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

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

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

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

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.

When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiri­tual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

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

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Yoga essentially means finding the keys to the nature of the existence.