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• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Practice, Demand

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• perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

  Hortense Calisher

  Prayer, Spurs, Answered Prayers

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Practice, Mindfulness

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• So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

  Allan Lokos

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Meditating

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Drinking, Wine

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

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• The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

  Dion Fortune

  Mean, Medicine, Differences

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

  Sonia Choquette

  Prayer, Listening, Asking

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Midst, Thousand, Activity

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• Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

  Rajneesh

  Done, Way, Remember

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• Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Mind

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• Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Life, Wisdom, Opposites

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• In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all. A state of no-mind is meditation. When you can look without any mind interfering, distorting, interpreting, then you see the truth. The truth is already all around; just you have to put your mind aside.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Desire, Prejudice

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• You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Want, Born

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Mind, Important

  "Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

  Plutarch

  Time, Men, Enjoy

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.29

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• As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Mother

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• By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Jesus, India, Sage

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• The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.

  John Main

  Christian, Reality, Giving

  John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.3, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Fitness, Buddhist, Exercise

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• Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

  Leza Lowitz

  Yoga, World, Layers

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• Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Taken, Reality

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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