Meditation Quotes - Page 11

• Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

  Michael Beckwith

  Prayer, Tests, Today

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 09, 2016

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• Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

  Sivananda

  Buddhist, Practice, Bliss

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• A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

  Johannes Tauler

  Religious, Exercise, Nodding

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• This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Media, Trying

  Speech at Denver, Colorado, February 19, 1977.

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• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

  Hugh Jackman

  Surroundings, Pursuit, Nothingness

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• Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Twilight, Heart, Shining

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1860). “Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic”, p.79

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• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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• Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Inspiration, Blood, Practice

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• Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Heart, Light

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• Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Levels, Way, Awareness

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Identity

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• Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Letting Go, Buddhist, Powerful

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• Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Vision, Inward, World

  "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi".

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• Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

  Richard Holloway

  Heart, Humanity, Our Love

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• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

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• Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Prayer, Listening, Trust In God

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• I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Research, Involved, Science Research

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• During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

  Hermann Hesse

  Past, Perfect, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, Meditation Practice, Friendly

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• Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

  Swami Muktananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Goal

  Swami Muktananda (1999). “Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You”, Siddha Yoga Publications

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• It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

  Eva Mendes

  Meditation Practice, Rewards, Deep Meditation

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• Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Taken, Thinking

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

  Rumi

  Christian, Unique, Rivers

  "Rumi and St. Francis: Healing Wisdom for Today" by Matthew Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Heart, Compassion

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• With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Powerful, Practice, Creative

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