Meditation Quotes - Page 14

• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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• It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Frightened, Importance

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Its never too late to take a moment to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation Practice, Looks, Too Late

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.129, Workman Publishing

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• To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

  Rajneesh

  Drunk, World

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• Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

  David Fontana

  Illumination, Walking Meditation, Mind

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• God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,
  it is already your true and natural state.
  Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,
  and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being.
  For this to be your own presently lived experience,
  Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Sacrifice, Self

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• Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Mind, Depth

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Able, Wealth, Deep Within

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• To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

  Will Tuttle

  Prayer, Failure, Hypocrite

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.197, Lantern Books

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• Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything.
  Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.
  We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations.
  But by meditating-by not doing anything-
  all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Thinking, Snakes, Rare Occasion

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• As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.

  James Finley

  Self, Meditation Practice, Moments

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• What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Mind, Should

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• It's like having... you know, your phone has a charger, right? It's like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That's what Transcendental Meditation is!

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Phones, Mind, Body

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• A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Practice

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Running, Inspiration, Practice

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

  Raul Julia

  Thinking, Way, Calming

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• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Emotional

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• Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Taken, People

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• Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

  Swami Muktananda

  Self, Honor, Worship

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• Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

  Ramakrishna

  Mind, Worship, Awareness

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• Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Voice, Silence, Solitude

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• Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

  Noah Levine

  Buddhist, Pain, Sitting Still

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• Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

  Richard Gere

  Quality, Mindfulness, Illusion

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• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Past, Hair, Peaceful

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• The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Joy, Mind

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