"With practice,
you can develop the habit of praying silent 'breath prayers'"
Rick Warren, from his
book (p. 299)
"[U]se
'breath prayers' throughout the day,
as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence
or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath."—Rick
Warren,
Purpose-Driven Life, p. 89.
See more quotes by Warren
"Does
Buddha have anything to offer non-Buddhists in the workplace? My answer
is a wholehearted, 'Yes.'—Ken Blanchard,
co-author of the One Minute Manager, from the foreword and front cover
of
What Would Buddha Do in the Workplace?
"We
have promoted an unbiblical message that becoming born-again is the
answer to everything. It's not. It changes your eternity, but it doesn't
change your sexual behaviour, for instance. The gospel does not always
have the answer for modern-day dilemmas."
"I
built myself a prayer room—a tiny sanctuary in a basement closet
filled with books on spiritual disciplines, contemplative prayer,
and Christian mysticism. In that space I lit candles, burned incense,
hung rosaries, and listened to tapes of Benedictine monks. I meditated
for hours on words, images, and sounds. I reached the point of being
able to achieve alpha brain patterns..."—Mike Perschon,
Youth
Specialties Magazine,
December 2004
"Choose a
sacred word or phrase. Consistently use the same word throughout the
prayer. Begin silently to repeat your sacred word or phrase"
Mark Yaconelli, Youth Specialties
National Pastor's Convention
"Spiritual
ecstasy. The third phase of contemplative prayer ... a supernatural
trance state ..."
Charisma
magazine, Oct. 2004
"Contemplative
prayer is nothing other than coming into consciousness of what is
already there."
Brennan Manning, Signature
of Jesus
"Brennan (Manning)
is my friend, walking ahead of me on the path toward home. As I watch
him from behind, I am drawn to more closely follow on the path..."
Larry Crabb, endorsement of Abba's
Child
"I began
practicing meditation, specifically breath prayer, once again. I integrated
the use of Tai Chi and yoga"
John Michael Talbot,
Interview with Christianity Today 10/22/2001
"Its [visualization] effect is to dissolve our internal barriers to natural harmony and
self realization"
Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization
"[Y]ou
and I may have strong opinions on double predestination, supralapsarianism,
and biblical inerrancy, but these should not be considered evangelical
essentials."
Richard Foster
What
works for me is a combination of disciplines: I do yoga, tai chi which
is a Chinese martial art and three kinds of meditation—vipasana,
transcendental and mantra
(sound) meditation.
Jack Canfield,
Chicken Soup for the Soul
This
quote sums it up—
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think
less, and not watch oneself live." Chamfort[1700s]
"When we go to
the center of our being and pass through that center into the very
center of God we get in immediate touch with this divine creating
energy ... that the divine energy may have the freedom to forward
the evolution of consciousness in us and through us, as a part of
the whole, in the whole of the creation." —M.
Basil Pennington
"Everyone is born a mystic and a lover who experiences the unity
of things and all are called to keep this mystic or lover of life
alive." -- Matthew Fox
