Quote by Peace Pilgrim
We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do. – Peace Pilgrim

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in ones life. – Peace Pilgrim

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The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will. – Walter M. Horton

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[I]t can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent, as if its substance were in some way erased. It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind

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He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. – Swami Muktananda

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