Wandering Thoughts Quotes

• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Meditation, Soul, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

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• I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

  James Joyce

  Children, Play, Desire

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

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• The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Character, Two

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• When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

  Nyogen Senzaki

  Running, Spiritual, Worry

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• We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Hands, Mind

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book III, (Ch. 20), 1845.

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Meditation, Soul

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1851). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical”, p.73

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