When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
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.
Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It's just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.
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.
God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.
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