Quotes On Centering

#1. Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

Larry Crabb

#2. Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can "rest in God.

Amos Smith

#3. While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Thomas Keating

#4. Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

Rajneesh

#5. By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

Stephen Covey

#6. This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus.

Marcus J. Borg

#7. Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

Frederick Lenz

#8. By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

Stephen Covey

#9. Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

Tabitha King

#10. Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment - as short as following three breaths - to connect with a deeper sense of yourself.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

Taryn Manning

#12. There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

Geoff Mulgan

#13. Follow through: As you continue with your day, carry with you the knowledge that simply with a change of mind, you can change your life. Return occasionally to this centering thought: I am creating perfect health with every choice. I am creating perfect health with every choice.

Deepak Chopra

#14. I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically ... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

Larry Crabb

#15. Centering prayer involves consenting to God's presence and action within - beyond thoughts, images, and perceptions - in order to form a contemplative relationship with God.

David Frenette

#16. Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center - at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

Jane Jacobs

#17. A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

Eric Maisel

#18. As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Charlie Ebersol

#19. I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel that when we are aware of our physical bodies, we become more aware of how we exist on the earth and more considerate of others with whom we share the earth.

Amanda Schull

#20. My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.

Phil Jackson

#21. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Steve Goodier

#22. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#23. Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

Mason Jennings

#24. We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

M. Basil Pennington

#25. Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

Michael Greger

#26. We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

John Piper

#27. Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

David Steindl-Rast

#28. In the middle of the brutal reality of death, Jesus never stopped calling people to life. Centering his attention on life, he continually pushes past the smaller and cheaper things we tend to live for and goes right to the core issue, which is life itself.

Rick McKinley

#29. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

David Platt

#30. At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

Dani Shapiro

#31. Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Trent Reznor

#32. Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Thomas Keating

#33. In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Thomas Keating

#34. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#35. RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#36. Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

David Brazzeal