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• Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you're meditating on a lone mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Waiting

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• I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

  Rick Springfield

  Dog, People, Love Of My Life

  "Rick Springfield On The Vietnam War: "I Killed Somebody"". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", www.cbc.ca.

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• The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Average, Lifetime, Individual

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• You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Gains, Certain

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and look at something that is perfect, this will help you deal with the world better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Perfect, Looks

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• Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Healthy, Stuff

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• How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Breathing, Littles, Tricks

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• Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Everyday, Essentials

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• Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mind

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Gossip, Mind, Let It Go

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• I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

  Forest Whitaker

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

  Carl Honore

  Reading, Making Love, Cooking

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Meditation, Impression

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• If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Men, Self

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, California

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• When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flames

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• I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Book, Rama

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• I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Believe, Terrible

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Meditation, Done

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.5, Aum Publications

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• I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  People

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Self

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• Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

  George Harrison

  Missing, Mind, Important

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on people when they're meditating, they indeed are entering a different portion of the brain which is activated.

  Darold Treffert

  People, Meditation, Brain

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