Meditation Practice Quotes

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

  Stephen Levine

  Inspiration, Live Life, Practice

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings”, p.9, Anchor

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Mind, Objectification

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• Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

  Swami Muktananda

  Inspiration, Forever, Mind

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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• What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Darkness

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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  The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

  Caroline Myss

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Healing

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014

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• Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Meditation And Yoga, Siddhartha

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• Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

  H. E Davey

  Inspiration, Past, Age

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• Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out

  Katherine Dunham

  Strength, Emotional, Blow

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• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Silence, Understanding, Sitting

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Compassion, Mind

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• There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Refusal, Harbors

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• The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self Realization, Method, Duty

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiration, Breathe, Conscious

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Inspiration, Years, Worship

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• The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

  James Allen

  Congratulations, Men, Intense

  James Allen (2007). “The Mastery of Destiny”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Letting Go, Self Realization, Duty

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

  Paul McCartney

  Meditation And Yoga, Lifelong, Meditation Life

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• Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Self, Firsts

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.64, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Yoga, Giving

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