Oneself Quote by Patricia Hampl Download Open image “Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.” — Patricia Hampl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oneself Placement Position Prayer
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image