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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Serious, Dangerous

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.707, Modern Library

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• Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Interesting, Personality

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Effort, Persevere, Difficulty

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 07, 2011

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• Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Giving, Greed

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• When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Yoga, Heart, My Heart

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• A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Your attention has to be on your Spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Helping, Life Is

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, He Man, Surroundings

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

  Shinzen Young

  Pain, Unconditional Love, Expression

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• Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

  David Lynch

  Mind, Technique, Borders

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Trying, Technique

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.326, Shambhala Publications

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• In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Listening, Mind

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• Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

  Ken Wilber

  Soul, Excellence, Identity

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Life, Brighten Your Day

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• A mind in the present moment is meditation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Moments, Spiritual Leader

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• Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

  Isaac Newton

  Silence, Truth Is, Offspring

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• The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Discipline, Mind, Purpose

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• No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.

  Rajneesh

  Know Me, Knows

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• For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
  near them, waiting.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Waiting, Spirit

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• That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Naps, Needs

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

  Tara Brach

  Flavor, Seasons

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• ...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

  Melody Beattie

  Spite, Plans, Happens

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

  H. E Davey

  Wisdom, Real, Reading

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