Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

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

If I don't feel good in myself, I pray, and I can throw off those bad feelings.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.