Jamie Anderson Quotes

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

I do have little trinkets. I'm a little bit of a hippie, so I have my wisdom rock - it goes with me; it's always in my purse, wherever I go. That's just me, being a hippie.

Vijji was not an accomplished yogi. She did what she did with just the sheer intensity of her emotions.

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.

The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

My belief in God has been helping me play the way I'm playing. But for the most part, I've just been working on my game.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

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

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend the entire truth; the explanation and teachings of masters and saints express only part of the whole. It is not possible for anyone to speak of such things in their entirety. Just head for the light and heat, learn from the gods, and through the virtue of devoted practice of the Art of Peace, become one with the divine.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

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

The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him.