Louise Hay Quotes

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

I think we can all recognize in some way or another that we as a human species, have been granted an incredible gift of intentionality and of consciousness. Perhaps this gift is a hint to how we should conduct our lives.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

The way you begin each day defines how you'll live each day.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

Just as surely as you can create a thought in your mind, you can create this day in the way you choose.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING.

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.