Gladys Taber Quotes

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually experience things that are happening. So for me, it's about meditating. My Everest is to have that become a real part of my life.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

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.