Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.

I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

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

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.