Meditation Quotes - Page 13

• The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

  Harrison Ford

  Focus And Concentration, Flying, Attention

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

  Geneen Roth

  Tools, Medley, Awake

  Twitter post from May 27, 2014

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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, Meditation Practice

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

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  Walter Bagehot

  Meditation And Yoga, Long, Calming

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

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• Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

  Sting

  Music, Song, Yoga

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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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• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Connected, Knows

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• Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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• Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

  Dan Millman

  Eye, Exercise, Looks

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• You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

  Rajneesh

  Eternity, Penetration, Meditating

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• Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Compassion, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Personality, Able, Technique

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

  Adi Shankara

  Heart, Mind, Lord

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• The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Meditation Practice, Enlightenment, Events

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• "God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Names

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• When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Silence, Presence Of God, Senses

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• You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God, Silence, Listening

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• The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Moving, Knowing

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• Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mean, Worry

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• Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering;
  holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream;
  each moment, life as it is, the only teacher;
  being just this moment, compassion's way.

  Joko Beck

  Dream, Teacher, Compassion

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• Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Window, Breeze, Invites

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Meditation Practice, Mind, Mountain

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