“The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that!" A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, "My partner should really meet you!"” PeopleShouldSometimesUseCommonTeachMeditationResponsePartnersStressedStressed Out Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.” WorldWayDesireFeltSidesMeditationAnxietyLet MeShameResponseFleshBest WayConfusionPhrasesAnxious Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
“The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.” SoulChristianMeditationHealthyTestsConstantResponseReformDaily LifeIntrovertExtrovertsGod's Presence Author:J. I. Packer
“Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.” FeelsFirstsHumansKindHas BeensBookSpiritualCertainHumanityPrayerHuman BeingsSilenceGreaterMeditationProgressEventsPrayingFellowsResponseDialogueUrgesCommunionContinuum Author:Aberjhani