“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.” IfsThinkingGivingChildrenHelpingSchoolPrayerPracticeMeditationQuietMindfulnessReflectionOur ChildrenContemplationGradesGreatest GiftsSpunGrades In School Author:Marianne Williamson
“I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.” IfsLooksMadeSelfSchoolLyingFoundHoursMeditationMovementOnenessCan NotCongratulationsNapsNurseryLapsesNursery School Author:Fay Weldon
“Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.” GivingHelpingTodaySchoolConsciousnessTeacherMeditationStudentsPrincipalStaffTranscendentalTeacher StudentTranscendental MeditationGood School Author:David Lynch
“Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.” PeopleArtSchoolOrderStudyMeditationMysteryEnlightenmentAncientPsychicsOccultAncient EgyptAtlantis Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.” IfsSchoolMeditationStudentsGainsSelf Centered Author:Pico Iyer
“There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish a better classroom environment, and the results and transformations were profound. It's impossible to ignore, and we make some passing references in my film, but 'A Room to Breathe' is a closer look at just how powerful meditation can be.” TryingLooksSchoolFilmRoomsResultsPowerfulEnvironmentMeditationWonderfulImpossibleTransformationProfoundBreathePassingPassingsClassroomDocumentariesInstructors Author:James Redford
“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym” IfsKindTwoWould BeSchoolGuyGirlNamesGivenStarsParentMorningMeditationMagicTeamFootballFlowerMomBirthFinalsWork OutCaliforniaGradesGymBusElectricityFrontiersHippieFootball TeamCertificatesLennonOptionalPoppiesBirth CertificateNorthern CaliforniaLennie Author:Jandy Nelson
“My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together. This month we're taking meditation to free the mind. Last month it was Rolfing. Have you ever Rolfed, Tone?" "Only after the school's shepherd's pie," I said.” WayShouldMindChildrenSaidSchoolTogetherLastsMotherParentQualityMeditationMonthsActivityOne WayToneOrganizedPieShepherdsQuality Time Author:Julie Anne Peters
“Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong.” LoveGivingIdeasWisdomSchoolSpiritMeditationCollegeYogaUniversityWellness Author:Nirmala Srivastava