{"quotes":[{"text":"I used to size people up to see whether they were a good advert for meditation. Then at some point it clicked that there wasn't a type of person they were going to become. They were each just more and more themselves. Jim was very Jim, Isaac was unique in his Isaac-ness and Debbie was increasingly Debbie. That was a great relief - that I could relax into being Tessa.","author":"Tessa Watt","tags":["mediation","mindfulness","philosophy"],"id":13855,"author_id":"Tessa+Watt"},{"text":"Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","daily-life","daily-living","destiny","encounter","everyday","everyday-faith","fate","god","man","manifesting","mankind","mediation","mindset","miracle-mindset","miracles","miraculous","motivational","music","philosophy-of-life","praying","purpose","quotes","religion","religion-and-philosophy","sacred-moments","seeker-of-fate","seeking-god","self-realization","spiritual-life","thought","time","waiting","wisdom","worship","you","your-destiny","your-journey","your-life"],"id":38931,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.","author":"John K. Brown","tags":["contemplation","mediation","philosophy","prayer","religion","spirituality"],"id":39659,"author_id":"John+K.+Brown"},{"text":"We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","affirmations","attitude","behaviour","belief","believers","bible","books","challenges","choices","christian","christian-living","christianity-faith","courage","depression","despair","difficulties-of-life","disappointment","divine-intervention","education","educational-philosophy","emotional-health","faith","fear","fearless","forgiveness","grave-divine","habits","healing","healthy-lifestyle","holy-writings","hope","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","learner","learning","lesson-learnt","life-lesson","lifestyle","mediation","mercy","nature","overcomer","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming-pain","pain","passions","positive-mindset","positive-outlook","quotes","read","reading-books","reality-of-life","religion","self-awareness","self-development","self-reliance","spiritual-life","spirituality","strength-through-adversity","struggles","troubles","wise-words","writings"],"id":40790,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You can gain self-confidence, with the prayerful life, reading and mediation on the Scripture.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","christian-life","daily-inspiration","inspirational","mediation","positive-actions","positive-outlook","reading-the-bible","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-help","self-motivation","spiritual-life","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":40854,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Mediate on the scriptures. It is the well spring of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["believers","bible","bible-study","christian","christian-life","emotional-healing","faith","god","good-life","health","healthy-living","holy-writing","hope","lessons-learnt","life","life-philosophy","lifestyle","mediation","scriptures","self-help","self-realization","uplifting"],"id":42396,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is 'hard,' 'small,' 'heavy,' 'yellow,' 'dense,' etc. That is how our language is made: 'The stone is hard.' And so on. And that way of talking is good enough for the marketplace: 'That is a new brand.' 'The potatoes are rotten.' 'The container is damaged.' ... And so on. But this way of talking is not good enough in science or epistemology. To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least -two- sets of interactions in time. ...Language continually asserts by the syntax of subject and predicate that 'things' somehow 'have' qualities and attributes. A more precise way of talking would insist that the 'things' are produced, are seen as separate from other 'things,' and are made 'real' by their internal relations and by their behaviour in relationship with other things and with the speaker. It is necessary to be quite clear about the universal truth that whatever 'things' may be in their pleromatic and thingish world, they can only enter the world of communication and meaning by their names, their qualities and their attributes (I.E., by reports of their internal and external relations and interactions).","author":"Gregory Bateson","tags":["cognitive-construct","communication-world","language","meanings","mediation","names","object","rethinking-ontological-basics","substance-vs-relation","thing"],"id":42501,"author_id":"Gregory+Bateson"},{"text":"Mediate on Scriptures. It is refreshing to the soul.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","faith","happiness","healthy","healthy-living","holy-writings","mediation","positive","scriptures","soul","spirit","spiritual-life"],"id":69616,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment","introspection","mediation","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-determination","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge"],"id":71228,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal.","author":"John Berger","tags":["language","mediation","pre-verbal","translation"],"id":89431,"author_id":"John+Berger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}