Quotes from The Power of Meditation by Edward Viljoen "If you can breathe, you can meditate, and this book teaches you how - even if you thought you never could." Dr. William K. Larkin, Director, Applied Neuroscience Institute

1. The Power of Meditation
by Edward Viljoen

7. If the pace of your life
cannot be slowed down
or de-cluttered right away,
you can apply the remedy
of slowing down your
mind.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

9. Although relaxation and
recreation are important
parts of a balanced life
they are different
activities and different
effects to meditation.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

11. Meditation requires practice,
and with a schedule of regular
sitting you will develop
momentum and that
momentum will take you beyond
what this or any other book can
impart to you.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

12. Meditation opens a
doorway between the
world of how things
appear to be and the
world of how things really
are.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

13. A spiritual life directed by
intellect only is missing
out on a richness of
wisdom and peace that
has always been inside us,
possibly hidden below the
surface activity of thought
and ideas of who we are.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

14. I closed my eyes, and
instead of trying to see
something, or trying to
think something, or feel
something, I started
instead to notice what
happened when I sat
down in this way and
observed.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

15. So I didn’t try to tame my
mind, instead I made
friends with it. By that I
mean I dropped my
mental fight with what I
discovered inside.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation

16. Sitting in quietness
without a fixed agenda is
a way of encouraging
ourselves to take in the
imperfections of life with
a little more gentleness,
less embarrassment,
shame or self-criticism.
Edward Viljoen
The Power of Meditation