335 Quotes About Strength-through-adversity

Meditation is your time-out with yourself. It isn’t a house party, and there is no law saying how you must feel. Keep a journal and write down how you feel before and after each meditation session. Maintain a beginner’s mind and, most importantly, connect with other like-minded people who can embrace, nourish, and support you during your practice and daily life.

Meditation is not an isolated act, it is not something you do and then forget about until the next time you practice. Meditation is a skill, a technique you use to help you regain your focus and concentration any time during your day. Being present and aware of your posture, your thoughts, and your breath on a regular basis during your day are as vital as knowing your shoe size.

In meditation, you train your body to be still and your mind to slow down and focus on a point of concentration.

The beauty of meditation is that it is an ongoing, unfolding personal development process that enables you to become more aware of your emotional states, thoughts, feelings, and actions and identify those that are healthy and unhealthy and ultimately lift or zap your energy

Life is busy and there will be days, weeks, maybe even months when you feel like, or want to meditate. That’s okay. That’s life. You will wake up one day and you will sit and practice

Often what feels like the end of the world is really a challenging pathway to a far better place.

...I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.

How can she still be alive? Any one of the tortures we have used today should have been enough to kill her. Yet we used everything and she still lives!