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• The flowering of love is meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Compassion, Concern For Others

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

  Naomi Watts

  Religious, Long, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, War, Numbers

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• Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

  Geneen Roth

  Mind, Desire, Emotion

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Waiting, Soul

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

  David Fontana

  Spiritual, Growth, Path

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• With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

  Mary Pipher

  Meditation Practice, Ledges, Waterfalls

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World”, p.121, Penguin

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• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  Salma Hayek

  Commitment, Thinking, Reset Button

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• Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Empowerment

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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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• To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Body, Responsible

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

  Howard Zinn

  Pain, Inspiration, Reality

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• One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

  Zoroaster

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Lakes, Clouds, Sky

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• The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Sides

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Suits You, Different

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• Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Creative, Important, Spirit

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.19, BookBaby

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• The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality.
  The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser.
  In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
  And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Fighting, Reality

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• The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Keys

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• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Silence, Sound

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Way, More Time

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Practice, Transcendental

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• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Loss, Evil, Swallowing

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