Quotes about Intention
If you feel that your dreams aren't coming true, you might think that you need to do more, or to think and strategize more. In fact, what you might need is less—less noise coming to you from both inside and outside—so that you have the space for your heart's truest intention to germinate and flourish.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Beginning anew" means being determined not to repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, "I am determined not to behave as I did in the past," transformation occurs immediately.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We transmit our thoughts, speech and actions - collectively known as our karma to our children and to the world, that is our future.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
— Thomas Merton
If you don't want the effect, do something to remove the causes. There is no use loving the cause and fearing the effect and being surprised when the effect inevitably follows the cause.
— Thomas Merton
The simple, chaste lines of a monastic Church, built perhaps by unskilled hands in the wilderness, may well say infinitely more in praise of God than the pretentious enormities of costly splendor that are erected to be looked at rather than to be prayed in.
— Thomas Merton
We are not responsible for more than our own action, but for this we should take complete responsibility. Then the results will follow of themselves, in a manner we may not always be able to foresee. We do not always have to foresee every possibility.
— Thomas Merton
What comes out of our hearts through the words of our mouths determines what comes to pass in our lives. It's the absolute truth.
— Kenneth Copeland
The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.
— Carl Jung