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• The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Tree, Awakening

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

  Emmet Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Character

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Order, World, Able

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “Why Meditate?”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Crazy, Reading, World

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• Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

  Karl Rahner

  Prayer, Meditation, Causes

  Karl Rahner (1997). “The Need and the Blessing of Prayer”, p.1, Liturgical Press

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• I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

  Ray Dalio

  New York, Twenties, Heard

  "Ray Dalio Explains How The Beatles Inspired Him To Meditate" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2010.

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• I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.19, Heron Dance Press

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• Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Writing, Years

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• In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Prayer, Thinking

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• Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

  Yogaswami

  Meditation, Silence, Soil

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• Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reality, Giving, Meditation

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• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Change, Spiritual, Creating

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Practical Spirituality: The Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication”, p.32, PuddleDancer Press

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• When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Successful, Men, Word Of God

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• The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Prayer, Kingdoms

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

  Paul Bourget

  Sleep, Reality, Unconsciousness

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• If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian Inspirational, Want, Faces

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Home, Thinking, Long

  Wu Wei Wei (2003). “The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)”, p.240, Sentient Publications

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• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  Victor Hugo

  Intelligent, Rivers, Shore

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• However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, And Off

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• Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Law

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• Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  People, Soul, Sound

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• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

  Phil Cousineau

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Risk

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• I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

  Brian Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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