William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
Quotes to Explore
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
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We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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The universe is not particularly concerned with you.
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I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
